Serious A404 crash in Harrow on 23 March 2012 at 15:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 15:20 on Friday 23 March 2012. A 13-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Ford Focus was seriously injured and the 69-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Mar 2012
- Friday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59056, longitude -0.37106, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TB00264
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A404 in Harrow, 26 January 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00072
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 29 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198401QA00153
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A404 in Harrow, 3 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501QA00781
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A404 in Harrow, 9 June 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00387
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A404 in Harrow, 10 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200301QA00584
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A404 in Harrow, 29 December 1994
10 m awayRef 199401QA00824
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 201201TB00264 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.