Serious B465 crash in Hillingdon on 12 July 2021 at 18:25 involving a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle
A Piaggio Vespa motorcycle and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the B465 in Hillingdon at 18:25 on Monday 12 July 2021. The 45-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Vespa motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jul 2021
- Monday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio Vespa and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.526, longitude -0.44026, in the UB8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wood End, Hillingdon, UB3 2TZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021010318724
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 465
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 1998.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B465 in Hillingdon, 23 December 1998
41 m awayRef 199801XH01176
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B465 in Hillingdon, 19 November 2003
42 m awayRef 200301XH00859
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B465 in Hillingdon, 15 February 1992
45 m awayRef 199201XY00074
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B465 in Hillingdon, 19 March 2014
51 m awayRef 201401XH30156
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the B465 in Hillingdon, 17 January 2022
55 m awayRef 2022010355135
Slight
Car crash on the B465 in Hillingdon, 14 April 1989
58 m awayRef 198901XY00129
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 244 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Vespa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2021010318724 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 2021.