A315 crash in Hounslow on 14 December 2018 at 23:55 involving a Mercedes CLS Class
A Mercedes CLS Class and a car were involved in a crash on the A315 in Hounslow at 23:55 on Friday 14 December 2018. A 51-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes CLS Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2018
- Friday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes CLS Class and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48668, longitude -0.29627, in the TW8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brentford West, Hounslow, TW8 0QL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010152226
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 315
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 30 November 1996.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A315 in Hounslow, 30 November 1996
At the same spotRef 199601TC00635
Slight
Rover Vitesse crash on the A315 in Hounslow, 1 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199801TD00002
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A315 in Hounslow, 3 July 2015
At the same spotRef 201501TX20617
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A315 in Hounslow, 26 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201501TX20042
Slight
Piaggio Typhoon crash on the A315 in Hounslow, 31 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200101TX00853
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A315 in Hounslow, 11 October 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010138481
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLS Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes CLS Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2018010152226 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hounslow road accident statistics for 2018.