Serious A4127 crash in Ealing on 2 July 2022 at 02:35 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A4127 in Ealing at 02:35 on Saturday 2 July 2022. The 22-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Jul 2022
- Saturday, 02:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51754, longitude -0.35485, in the UB1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ealing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenford Broadway, Ealing, UB6 9DR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ealing
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010385937
- Council area
- Ealing
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4127
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 1991.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A4127 in Ealing, 28 March 1991
3 m awayRef 199101XS00274
Slight
Car crash on the A4127 in Ealing, 6 May 1984
3 m awayRef 198401XS00277
Slight
Car crash on the A4127 in Ealing, 29 June 1987
3 m awayRef 198701XS00343
Slight
Honda CBR 650 FA crash on the A4127 in Ealing, 5 December 2019
5 m awayRef 2019010223001
Slight
Skoda Kamiq crash on the A4127 in Ealing, 23 May 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010576613
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4127 in Ealing, 25 May 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010183194
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 2022010385937 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 2022.