Unclassified road crash at Heathrow Airport UB7 on 11 July 2022 at 07:32 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
A Volkswagen Sharan crashed on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport at 07:32 on Monday 11 July 2022. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 2022
- Monday, 07:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Sharan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47986, longitude -0.48055, in the UB7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heathrow Villages, Hillingdon, UB7 0DH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010387655
- Council area
- Heathrow Airport
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- London Airport (Heathrow)
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 68 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 2015.
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Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport, 15 September 1999
114 m awayRef 199901ID00078
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Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport, 20 June 2024
126 m awayRef 2024010517359
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Volvo crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport, 7 June 2024
129 m awayRef 2024010514856
Serious
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport, 20 January 2005
137 m awayRef 200501ID00004
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Sharan)
- 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 2022010387655 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Heathrow Airport road accident statistics for 2022.