Serious B461 crash in Harrow on 1 June 2004 at 12:32 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus and a Volkswagen Corrado were involved in a crash on the B461 in Harrow at 12:32 on Tuesday 1 June 2004. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jun 2004
- Tuesday, 12:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and Volkswagen Corrado
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60758, longitude -0.29059, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401QA00262
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B461 in Harrow, 17 April 2013
At the same spotRef 201301QA10140
Slight
Vauxhall Senator crash on the B461 in Harrow, 19 November 1993
At the same spotRef 199301QA00755
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B461 in Harrow, 3 July 2009
At the same spotRef 200901QA10258
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B461 in Harrow, 9 January 1995
At the same spotRef 199501QA00013
Slight
Vauxhall Midi crash on the B461 in Harrow, 24 January 1995
At the same spotRef 199501QA00050
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B461 in Harrow, 6 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199801QA00453
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Corrado
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Corrado)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Corrado)
- 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 200401QA00262 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.