Unclassified road crash in Hounslow UB2 on 11 March 2020 at 16:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Ford Transit Custom van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hounslow at 16:00 on Wednesday 11 March 2020. The 54-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Mar 2020
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4977, longitude -0.40312, in the UB2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heston West, Hounslow, UB2 5XA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010241545
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2022.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on a C road in Hounslow, 9 December 2022
3 m awayRef 2022010415418
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Hounslow, 25 June 2017
5 m awayRef 2017010044773
Slight
Audi A4 crash on a C road in Hounslow, 31 December 2017
5 m awayRef 2017010081186
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Hounslow, 25 March 2010
5 m awayRef 201001TX20211
Serious
Ford crash on a C road in Hounslow, 1 May 1990
5 m awayRef 199001TD00284
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Hounslow, 10 October 2014
5 m awayRef 201401TX20795
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020010241545 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 2020.