Serious A4007 crash in Hillingdon on 8 October 2018 at 16:45 involving an Abarth 500
An Abarth 500 and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4007 in Hillingdon at 16:45 on Monday 8 October 2018. The 27-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Oct 2018
- Monday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Abarth 500 and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54071, longitude -0.49239, in the UB8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Uxbridge, Hillingdon, UB8 2YG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hillingdon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010137703
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4007
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 1990.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A4007 in Hillingdon, 13 April 1990
At the same spotRef 199001XU00212
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4007 in Hillingdon, 28 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199701XH00786
Serious
Van crash on the A4007 in Hillingdon, 29 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198801XR00341
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4007 in Hillingdon, 13 May 1996
At the same spotRef 199601XH00460
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4007 in Hillingdon, 29 November 2015
At the same spotRef 201501XH30841
Slight
Car crash on the A4007 in Hillingdon, 21 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801XR00176
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Abarth 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2018010137703 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.