C road crash in Harrow HA2 on 29 December 2008 at 19:20 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on a C road in Harrow at 19:20 on Monday 29 December 2008. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2008
- Monday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57242, longitude -0.35339, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harrow on the Hill, Harrow, HA2 0PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801QA19003
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2024.
Slight
MG HS crash on a C road in Harrow, 5 May 2024
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BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Harrow, 31 March 1991
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Serious
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Harrow, 4 October 2023
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 6 February 2014
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Slight
Volvo crash on a C road in Harrow, 15 April 2011
14 m awayRef 201101QA10097
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200801QA19003 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.