A410 crash in Harrow on 31 October 2008 at 11:20 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and an Aprilia RS 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A410 in Harrow at 11:20 on Friday 31 October 2008. The 32-year-old male rider of the Aprilia RS 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2008
- Friday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Aprilia RS 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60786, longitude -0.37377, in the HA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hatch End, Harrow, HA5 4QX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801QA10399
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 410
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A410 in Harrow, 12 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199801QA00325
Slight
Car crash on the A410 in Harrow, 5 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198901QA00325
Slight
Car crash on the A410 in Harrow, 28 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010QA0512
Slight
Volvo crash on the A410 in Harrow, 25 April 2013
At the same spotRef 201301QA10146
Slight
Honda ST1100L crash on the A410 in Harrow, 7 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00679
Slight
Car crash on the A410 in Harrow, 11 November 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010QA0810
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Aprilia RS 125
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia RS 125)
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 200801QA10399 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.