A4 crash in Hounslow on 7 September 2025 at 18:50 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Honda WW125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4 in Hounslow at 18:50 on Sunday 7 September 2025. The 38-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2025
- Sunday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Honda WW125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4882, longitude -0.3136, in the TW8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brentford West, Hounslow, TW8 0QL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010596154
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3002
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- 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 17 April 2024.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 17 April 2024
3 m awayRef 2024010505492
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 19 November 2000
4 m awayRef 200001TX01296
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 24 June 2002
4 m awayRef 200201TX00618
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 7 August 2015
4 m awayRef 201501TX20614
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 6 April 1999
4 m awayRef 199901TX00329
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 13 January 2001
4 m awayRef 200101TX00091
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda WW125)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025010596154 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 2025.