C road crash in Harrow HA5 on 16 December 2008 at 01:05 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 01:05 on Tuesday 16 December 2008. A 21-year-old male passenger in the car 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
- 16 Dec 2008
- Tuesday, 01:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59042, longitude -0.38016, in the HA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pinner South, Harrow, HA5 1BJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801QA10453
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 404
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 5 December 1985.
Serious
Van crash on the A404 in Harrow, 5 December 1985
At the same spotRef 198501QA00813
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 4 November 1991
At the same spotRef 199101QA00705
Slight
Audi A4 crash on a C road in Harrow, 22 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199901QA00687
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A404 in Harrow, 20 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200701QA10371
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Harrow, 25 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00710
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Harrow, 13 February 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00116
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 200801QA10453 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.