A409 crash in Harrow on 14 March 2004 at 22:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 22:50 on Sunday 14 March 2004. The 17-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and an 18-year-old male passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 2004
- Sunday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59326, longitude -0.33314, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marlborough, Harrow, HA1 1XH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401QA00124
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 409
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2000.
Slight
HGV crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 19 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200001QA09086
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A409 in Harrow, 16 October 2013
At the same spotRef 201301QA19010
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A409 in Harrow, 11 September 2020
2 m awayRef 2020010267063
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 3 January 2019
5 m awayRef 2019010155756
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 1 December 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010413951
Slight
MG 5 crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 1 January 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010551873
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 200401QA00124 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 2004.