A404 crash in Harrow on 18 October 2000 at 20:25 involving a Dennis bus
Two Dennis buses, a Rover 200 Series and an Audi 100 were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 20:25 on Wednesday 18 October 2000. The 36-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2000
- Wednesday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 4
- Dennis and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58342, longitude -0.35587, 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
- 200001QA00639
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 29 December 2003.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A404 in Harrow, 29 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301QA09012
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A404 in Harrow, 9 September 2015
10 m awayRef 201501QA10338
Serious
Nissan Almera crash on the A404 in Harrow, 25 May 2013
10 m awayRef 201301QA10245
Slight
BYD Enviro crash on the A404 in Harrow, 6 September 2025
10 m awayRef 2025010596038
Slight
Lexus RX300 crash on the A404 in Harrow, 16 January 2003
22 m awayRef 200301QA00132
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 31 October 2004
28 m awayRef 200401QA00582
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- First point of impact
- Back
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 4: Audi 100
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- First point of impact
- Back
- Engine capacity
- 2,226 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Dennis)
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 200001QA00639 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.