C road crash in Harrow HA5 on 30 December 2012 at 18:40 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 18:40 on Sunday 30 December 2012. A 69-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2012
- Sunday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58368, longitude -0.37391, in the HA5 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
- 201201QA10449
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- C
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
- Wet or damp
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 serious injury crash on 5 December 2005.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Harrow, 5 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200501QA10509
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on a C road in Harrow, 18 August 2000
At the same spotRef 200001QA00506
Slight
Skoda Yeti crash on a C road in Harrow, 17 November 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010146368
Slight
Honda SH50 crash on a C road in Harrow, 12 May 2000
At the same spotRef 200001QA00309
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Harrow, 5 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00368
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Harrow, 10 November 2012
At the same spotRef 201201QA10385
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- 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 201201QA10449 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.