C road crash in Harrow HA8 on 31 January 2008 at 08:00 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis crashed on a C road in Harrow at 08:00 on Thursday 31 January 2008. The 49-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2008
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60412, longitude -0.28133, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Edgware, Harrow, HA8 5SB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801QA10023
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2004.
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Mercedes C Class crash on a C road in Harrow, 10 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200401QA00120
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Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harrow, 27 March 1991
10 m awayRef 199101QA00190
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Harrow, 11 June 1997
14 m awayRef 199701QA00397
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Audi A5 crash on a C road in Harrow, 22 December 2017
14 m awayRef 2017010079746
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Renault Clio crash on a C road in Harrow, 3 October 1992
22 m awayRef 199201QA00611
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Harrow, 16 May 1985
28 m awayRef 198501QA00286
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, 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 200801QA10023 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 2008.