Serious C road crash in Harrow HA8 on 24 September 2013 at 15:29 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on a C road in Harrow at 15:29 on Tuesday 24 September 2013. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Sep 2013
- Tuesday, 15:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6023, longitude -0.28631, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Centenary, Harrow, HA7 1NP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301QA10339
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1995.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Harrow, 17 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199501QA00596
Serious
Bedford crash on a C road in Harrow, 20 January 1991
14 m awayRef 199101QA00052
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 1 September 1985
20 m awayRef 198501QA00558
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 19 February 1982
22 m awayRef 1982010QA0123
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on a C road in Harrow, 28 June 2010
28 m awayRef 201001QA10233
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on a C road in Harrow, 25 November 2006
28 m awayRef 200601QA10529
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201301QA10339 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 2013.