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A5 crash in Barnet on 27 February 1997 at 11:40 involving an MCW bus

An MCW bus crashed on the A5 in Barnet at 11:40 on Thursday 27 February 1997. A 77-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Feb 1997
Thursday, 11:40
Vehicles
1
MCW
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60577, longitude -0.27407, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.

Map of where the crash happened in Barnet

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199701QA00154
Council area
Barnet
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
5
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
30 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
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2008.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: MCW

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    33 years
    Engine capacity
    1,045 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    17 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 77, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (MCW)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Seated passenger

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 199701QA00154 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1997.