A409 crash in Harrow on 12 December 1998 at 10:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 1998
- Saturday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Proton Proton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57985, longitude -0.32817, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801QA00830
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 409
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 18 February 2006.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A409 in Harrow, 18 February 2006
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Slight
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Slight
Lexus IS 300 crash on the A409 in Harrow, 29 March 2025
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Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A409 in Harrow, 3 October 2022
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Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A409 in Harrow, 14 November 2020
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Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A409 in Harrow, 5 December 2020
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Proton Proton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,468 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 199801QA00830 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 1998.