A4 crash in Hounslow on 3 December 2020 at 11:25 involving a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle and a Ford Galaxy taxi were involved in a crash on the A4 in Hounslow at 11:25 on Thursday 3 December 2020. The 27-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2020
- Thursday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki SV 650 and Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48754, longitude -0.26459, in the W4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chiswick Gunnersbury, Hounslow, W4 2DE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hounslow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010283243
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 2010.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 30 December 2010
4 m awayRef 201001TX20867
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 2 October 2018
9 m awayRef 2018010136422
Slight
Volvo crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 28 April 2003
11 m awayRef 200301TE00062
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 22 February 1998
11 m awayRef 199801TC00093
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 16 April 2001
13 m awayRef 200101TX00398
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 21 June 1996
13 m awayRef 199601TC00310
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Galaxy
Taxi or private hire car
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 650)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020010283243 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.