A40 crash in Hillingdon on 7 September 2018 at 06:05 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A40 in Hillingdon at 06:05 on Friday 7 September 2018. The 31-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2018
- Friday, 06:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55875, longitude -0.469, in the UB8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ickenham & South Harefield, Hillingdon, UB10 8HZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010131193
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 467
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 1992.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A40 in Hillingdon, 14 June 1992
At the same spotRef 199201XU00279
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Hillingdon, 8 June 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010XR0463
Slight
Van crash on the A40 in Hillingdon, 18 February 1988
10 m awayRef 198801XR00106
Serious
Van crash on the B467 in Hillingdon, 26 June 2012
10 m awayRef 201201XH30409
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the B467 in Hillingdon, 9 November 2025
12 m awayRef 2025010608397
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Hillingdon, 5 March 1989
14 m awayRef 198901XU00163
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 31, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2018010131193 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 2018.