Serious A4090 crash in Harrow on 7 November 2008 at 00:02 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A4090 in Harrow at 00:02 on Friday 7 November 2008. A 26-year-old female passenger in the car and a 28-year-old male passenger in the car were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Nov 2008
- Friday, 00:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58148, longitude -0.36504, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Harrow, Harrow, HA2 7TA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801QA10394
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4090
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2003.
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 9 August 2003
At the same spotRef 200301QA00484
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 2 September 2011
At the same spotRef 201101QA10245
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 4 July 2014
At the same spotRef 201401QA10436
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 18 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200601QA10310
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 12 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00851
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 5 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199501QA00496
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North 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
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200801QA10394 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.