A4090 crash in Harrow on 11 August 2012 at 21:00 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A4090 in Harrow at 21:00 on Saturday 11 August 2012. The 36-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf and a 35-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf 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
- 11 Aug 2012
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57258, longitude -0.37142, 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 7JL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201QA10270
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4090
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 30 November 2001.
Serious
Volvo 850 crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 30 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200101QA09058
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 15 September 2006
At the same spotRef 200601QA10400
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 7 July 1993
At the same spotRef 199301QA00404
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 19 July 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010121963
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 6 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200201QA00197
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 15 May 2010
At the same spotRef 201001QA10160
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 201201QA10270 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.