A404 crash in Harrow on 8 January 2011 at 01:49 involving a Vauxhall Combo
A Vauxhall Combo and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 01:49 on Saturday 8 January 2011. The 46-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo, the 24-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf and a 45-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Combo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 2011
- Saturday, 01:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Combo and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58575, longitude -0.36113, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201101QA10057
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4090
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2008.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A404 in Harrow, 1 March 2008
At the same spotRef 200801QA10068
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A404 in Harrow, 5 April 2003
At the same spotRef 200301QA00266
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A404 in Harrow, 31 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00509
Slight
Car crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 13 January 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00040
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A404 in Harrow, 16 April 1995
At the same spotRef 199501QA00237
Slight
Vauxhall crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 11 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00866
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
- 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 201101QA10057 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 2011.