A4 crash in Hounslow on 30 October 2021 at 16:04 involving a Smart Fortwo
A Smart Fortwo and a Mitsubishi Outlander were involved in a crash on the A4 in Hounslow at 16:04 on Saturday 30 October 2021. The 42-year-old male driver of the Smart Fortwo 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
- 30 Oct 2021
- Saturday, 16:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Smart Fortwo and Mitsubishi Outlander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4924, longitude -0.285, in the TW8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chiswick Riverside, Hounslow, W4 3AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hounslow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021010340652
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 2024.
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Honda NSS crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 6 July 2024
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Toyota Auris crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 12 January 2022
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Bicycle crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 24 October 2018
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Bicycle crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 6 February 2019
5 m awayRef 2019010161823
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Subaru XV crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 21 October 2025
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Bicycle crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 16 June 2025
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Smart Fortwo
Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Outlander
Car
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Smart Fortwo)
- 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 2021010340652 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 2021.