Serious A409 crash in Harrow on 4 December 1997 at 14:42 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 14:42 on Thursday 4 December 1997. A 39-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Dennis bus was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Dec 1997
- Thursday, 14:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dennis and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60529, longitude -0.34037, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701QA00833
- 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
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 1996.
Slight
Triumph Dolomite crash on the A409 in Harrow, 24 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00549
Slight
Car crash on the A409 in Harrow, 24 December 1986
At the same spotRef 198601QA00902
Slight
Honda XL125R crash on the A409 in Harrow, 8 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00637
Slight
Car crash on the A409 in Harrow, 13 May 1990
10 m awayRef 199001QA00385
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A409 in Harrow, 24 March 1991
10 m awayRef 199101QA00188
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A409 in Harrow, 12 January 2004
10 m awayRef 200401QA00037
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 199701QA00833 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.