C road crash in Harrow HA3 on 8 May 2014 at 16:53 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus crashed on a C road in Harrow at 16:53 on Thursday 8 May 2014. A 70-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2014
- Thursday, 16:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59662, longitude -0.33504, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marlborough, Harrow, HA1 1XH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401QA10206
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 2010.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on a C road in Harrow, 25 March 2010
10 m awayRef 201001QA10079
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Harrow, 24 December 2005
10 m awayRef 200501QA10582
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on a C road in Harrow, 17 July 2001
10 m awayRef 200101QA00808
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 8 February 2010
10 m awayRef 201001QA10042
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on a C road in Harrow, 2 May 2009
10 m awayRef 200901QA10154
Slight
Renault Megane crash on a C road in Harrow, 7 September 2011
14 m awayRef 201101QA10248
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 70, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 201401QA10206 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 2014.