A4127 crash in Harrow on 10 October 2008 at 17:52 involving a Honda CBF500 motorcycle
A Honda CBF500 motorcycle and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A4127 in Harrow at 17:52 on Friday 10 October 2008. The 31-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF500 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 2008
- Friday, 17:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBF500 and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56098, longitude -0.33288, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northwick Park, Brent, HA1 3TD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801QA10352
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4127
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 1997.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A4127 in Harrow, 28 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00827
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4127 in Harrow, 19 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200601QA19047
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A4127 in Harrow, 21 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010604954
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the A4127 in Harrow, 21 January 2015
10 m awayRef 201501QA10134
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4127 in Harrow, 24 April 2014
10 m awayRef 201401QA10177
Slight
Car crash on the A4127 in Harrow, 26 July 1989
10 m awayRef 198901QA00555
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBF500
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBF500)
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 200801QA10352 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.