A404 crash in Harrow on 26 September 2013 at 11:30 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry and a Toyota Avensis were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 11:30 on Thursday 26 September 2013. The 88-year-old male driver of the Toyota Avensis was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2013
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57817, longitude -0.32734, 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 Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301QA10368
- 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
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 2021.
Slight
Seat Alhambra crash on the A4006 in Harrow, 27 November 2021
4 m awayRef 2021010346537
Slight
Honda FSH125 crash on the A404 in Harrow, 23 May 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010444752
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 10 August 2000
10 m awayRef 200001QA00502
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A404 in Harrow, 17 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199801QD00549
Serious
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the A404 in Harrow, 23 November 2000
10 m awayRef 200001QA09030
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A404 in Harrow, 20 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199501QA00609
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,370 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 88 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 88, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Avensis)
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 201301QA10368 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.