A409 crash in Harrow on 8 August 2004 at 21:07 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 21:07 on Sunday 8 August 2004. A 16-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa and the 22-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 2004
- Sunday, 21:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58025, longitude -0.32885, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenhill, Harrow, HA1 2EN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401QA00399
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 2001.
Slight
Yamaha EW 50 (Slider) crash on the A409 in Harrow, 22 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200101QA00258
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A409 in Harrow, 23 August 2003
At the same spotRef 200301QA00506
Slight
Toyota Starlet crash on the A409 in Harrow, 16 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200401QA00478
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A409 in Harrow, 17 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801QA09017
Serious
Seat Alhambra crash on the A409 in Harrow, 8 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200401QA00465
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A409 in Harrow, 5 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201201QA10069
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 200401QA00399 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.