Serious A409 crash in Harrow on 3 August 2008 at 02:05 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 02:05 on Sunday 3 August 2008. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta and a male passenger in the Ford Mondeo were seriously injured and the 26-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta 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
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Aug 2008
- Sunday, 02:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60035, longitude -0.33808, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wealdstone North, Harrow, HA3 5PL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801QA74600
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 409
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 February 1994.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A409 in Harrow, 13 February 1994
At the same spotRef 199401QA00088
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A409 in Harrow, 26 June 1998
At the same spotRef 199801QA00452
Slight
Car crash on the A409 in Harrow, 24 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198401QA00139
Slight
Volvo crash on the A409 in Harrow, 25 November 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010003351
Slight
Bus crash on the A409 in Harrow, 25 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00290
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A409 in Harrow, 13 February 1995
At the same spotRef 199501QA00091
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- 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 200801QA74600 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.