C road crash in Harrow HA2 on 1 January 2012 at 13:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo hit a pedestrian on a C road in Harrow at 13:00 on Sunday 1 January 2012. A 31-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2012
- Sunday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56657, longitude -0.35922, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roxeth, Harrow, HA2 8NW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201QA10017
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 20 December 1988
10 m awayRef 198801QA01000
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on a C road in Harrow, 12 September 2025
23 m awayRef 2025010599515
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 5 February 2024
32 m awayRef 2024010492898
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harrow, 19 September 2000
42 m awayRef 200001QA00573
Slight
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on a C road in Harrow, 6 July 2004
42 m awayRef 200401QA00320
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Harrow, 26 September 1996
45 m awayRef 199601QA00674
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201201QA10017 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 2012.