A4090 crash in Harrow on 12 October 2002 at 19:30 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova and a Ford Orion were involved in a crash on the A4090 in Harrow at 19:30 on Saturday 12 October 2002. The 18-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Nova and an 18-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Nova were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2002
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Nova and Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58157, longitude -0.36489, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Harrow, Harrow, HA2 7TA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201QA00582
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4090
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 30 January 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 30 January 1993
At the same spotRef 199301QA00065
Slight
Car crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 15 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198801QA00263
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 20 October 1992
At the same spotRef 199201QA00652
Slight
Car crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 6 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199901QA00509
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 18 January 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00170
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 14 August 2008
At the same spotRef 200801QA10275
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,608 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- 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 200201QA00582 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 2002.