B461 crash in Harrow on 17 January 2003 at 21:55 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a car were involved in a crash on the B461 in Harrow at 21:55 on Friday 17 January 2003. The 44-year-old male driver of the car and a 45-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2003
- Friday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60716, longitude -0.29898, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Centenary, Harrow, HA7 1NP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301QA00071
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 461
- 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
- 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 6 September 2002.
Slight
Hyundai Lantra crash on the B461 in Harrow, 6 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201QA00623
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B461 in Harrow, 3 June 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00373
Slight
Dennis crash on the B461 in Harrow, 8 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801QA00827
Fatal
Fiat Uno crash on the B461 in Harrow, 14 September 1998
At the same spotRef 199801QA00621
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B461 in Harrow, 7 July 2011
At the same spotRef 201101QA10184
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B461 in Harrow, 6 January 2020
7 m awayRef 2020010228843
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 200301QA00071 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 2003.