Serious unclassified road crash in Harrow HA3 on 19 July 2005 at 20:25 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 20:25 on Tuesday 19 July 2005. The 26-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle and a 19-year-old male passenger in the Ford Transit van were seriously 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
- 19 Jul 2005
- Tuesday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Yamaha YZF R1
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58809, longitude -0.31081, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kenton, Brent, HA3 0DN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501QA10271
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 1990.
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 2 February 1990
14 m awayRef 199001QA00115
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 12 April 1998
51 m awayRef 199801QA00247
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 25 July 1983
61 m awayRef 1983010QA0504
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 14 October 1991
110 m awayRef 199101QA00651
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 2 November 1990
110 m awayRef 199001QA00855
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 17 June 1992
110 m awayRef 199201QA00374
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF R1
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 200501QA10271 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 2005.