A404 crash in Brent on 31 December 2012 at 16:45 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Volkswagen Sharan taxi were involved in a crash on the A404 in Brent at 16:45 on Monday 31 December 2012. A 72-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Passat and a 62-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Passat were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2012
- Monday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Volkswagen Sharan
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57797, longitude -0.32634, in the HA1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenhill, Harrow, HA1 2EN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brent
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201QA10439
- Council area
- Brent
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 404
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2006.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A404 in Brent, 23 January 2006
At the same spotRef 200601QA10006
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4006 in Brent, 26 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200401QA00057
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A404 in Brent, 24 February 1992
At the same spotRef 199201QA00111
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A404 in Brent, 6 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200701QK50478
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A404 in Brent, 12 January 2012
At the same spotRef 201201QA10033
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A404 in Brent, 28 July 2004
At the same spotRef 200401QA00375
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Sharan
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201201QA10439 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brent road accident statistics for 2012.