to Southall; the Target Roundabout (with the A312, ), a junction for Heathrow Airport; and the Polish War Memorial junction (with the A4180, ) for RAF Northolt. In the final few miles of the road, there are minor junctions with the A437 (Hillingdon Circus) to Ruislip and Hillingdon, and with the B467 (Swakeleys Roundabout) to Uxbridge, before the road ends at the junction with the M40 at the Denham Roundabout, northwest of Uxbridge. Air crash Western Avenue borders RAF Northolt in South Ruislip. On Tuesday 13 August 1996, in a very unusual accident, a Lear Jet landing at the airfield overshot the runway and ended up crashing into a van that just happened to be passing on the A40. The van driver was not seriously injured, despite being trapped for 40 minutes. It was later determined that the crash may have been caused when the Spanish pilot and co-pilot were having a disagreement over who should handle the landing. There was only one passenger on the Lear Jet, an actress named Lisa Hogan, who was slightly injured. In popular culture Western Avenue features heavily in Crash, the 1973 J. G. Ballard novel about symphorophilia (car-crash fetishism). Edward Platt won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for his 2000 book Leadville, about the Western Avenue. See also Eastern Avenue, London References Citations Sources External links The Hoover Building Edward Platt, Leadville (Picador, 2001). . Original Newspaper report on the accident Streets in the London Borough of Ealing Streets in the London Borough of Hillingdon Transport in Buckinghamshire