A40 crash in Ealing on 31 October 2024 at 16:15 involving a Mercedes Cla Class
A Mercedes Cla Class and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A40 in Ealing at 16:15 on Thursday 31 October 2024. The 27-year-old female driver of the Mercedes Cla Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2024
- Thursday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Cla Class and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53121, longitude -0.30283, in the W5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hanger Hill, Ealing, W5 1UA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ealing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024010540917
- Council area
- Ealing
- 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
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2004.
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A40 in Ealing, 29 October 2004
2 m awayRef 200401XS00988
Slight
Hyundai Santa Fe crash on the A40 in Ealing, 21 July 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010194988
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A40 in Ealing, 9 May 1997
9 m awayRef 199701XS00285
Serious
Mercedes S Class crash on the A40 in Ealing, 22 April 2020
9 m awayRef 2020010245679
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A40 in Ealing, 26 March 1997
12 m awayRef 199701XD00366
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A40 in Ealing, 7 January 2002
12 m awayRef 200201XS00053
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Cla Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Cla Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2024010540917 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 2024.