Unclassified road crash in Harrow HA5 on 12 May 2000 at 15:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 15:00 on Friday 12 May 2000. The 19-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2000
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58585, longitude -0.38134, in the HA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200001QA00310
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 August 1983.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 28 August 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010QA0569
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 6 September 2002
14 m awayRef 200201QA00574
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 3 June 1998
22 m awayRef 199801QA00379
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 18 October 1990
28 m awayRef 199001QA00801
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 2 August 1989
28 m awayRef 198901QA00565
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 10 October 2010
28 m awayRef 201001QA10455
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
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 200001QA00310 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 2000.