Unclassified road crash in Harrow HA3 on 1 July 2012 at 18:50 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Peugeot 207 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 18:50 on Sunday 1 July 2012. The 18-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo 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
- 1 Jul 2012
- Sunday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59107, longitude -0.29309, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queensbury, Brent, NW9 9QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201QA10212
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 23 May 1999
At the same spotRef 199901QA00358
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 9 September 1994
63 m awayRef 199401QA00552
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 3 February 1988
86 m awayRef 198801QA00087
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 29 February 1992
86 m awayRef 199201QA00123
Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 5 April 1992
108 m awayRef 199201QA00204
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 1 July 1985
114 m awayRef 198501QA00411
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 201201QA10212 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.