Serious A409 crash in Harrow on 24 March 1997 at 17:30 involving a Renault 19
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Mar 1997
- Monday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault 19 and car
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58012, longitude -0.32845, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701QA00225
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 409
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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 serious injury crash on 4 October 1982.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A409 in Harrow, 4 October 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010QA0665
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A409 in Harrow, 10 March 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00185
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A409 in Harrow, 11 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00768
Slight
Bus crash on the A409 in Harrow, 25 August 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010056010
Serious
Car crash on the A409 in Harrow, 8 November 1984
At the same spotRef 198401QA00766
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harrow, 9 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199901QA00166
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault 19
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 19)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 199701QA00225 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harrow road accident statistics for 1997.