A4140 crash in Harrow on 8 December 2005 at 17:28 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A4140 in Harrow at 17:28 on Thursday 8 December 2005. The 34-year-old male driver of the Toyota Avensis was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2005
- Thursday, 17:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60237, longitude -0.29743, in the HA7 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501QA10526
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4140
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1995.
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 11 October 1995
At the same spotRef 199501QA00653
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 24 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199801QA00810
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 28 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201QA00581
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 18 May 2000
At the same spotRef 200001QA00345
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 25 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199901QA00063
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 16 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301QA09001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
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 200501QA10526 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.