A409 crash in Harrow on 11 October 1997 at 16:15 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Ford Orion were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 16:15 on Saturday 11 October 1997. The 54-year-old female driver of the Ford Sierra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 1997
- Saturday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62936, longitude -0.33848, in the WD23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701QA00699
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 409
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2005.
Slight
Hyundai Elantra crash on the A409 in Harrow, 21 August 2005
10 m awayRef 200501QA10470
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A409 in Harrow, 3 May 1995
10 m awayRef 199501SA00423
Slight
Dennis crash on the A409 in Harrow, 30 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200101QA00578
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A409 in Harrow, 1 September 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010022757
Slight
Car crash on the A409 in Harrow, 16 December 1988
10 m awayRef 198801QA00977
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A409 in Harrow, 24 February 1982
14 m awayRef 1982010QA0142
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 199701QA00699 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.