A404 crash in Harrow on 29 December 2003 at 15:35 involving a BMW 3 Series
A car and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 15:35 on Monday 29 December 2003. The 73-year-old male driver of the car and the 32-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2003
- Monday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 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. It is one of the crashes that make up the Headstone, Harrow, HA1 4QY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301QA09012
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 18 October 2000.
Slight
Dennis crash on the A404 in Harrow, 18 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200001QA00639
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 (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 200301QA09012 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.