Serious A312 crash in Harrow on 8 May 2014 at 10:38 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus and a Toyota Prius taxi were involved in a crash on the A312 in Harrow at 10:38 on Thursday 8 May 2014. A 47-year-old female passenger in the Dennis bus was seriously injured and a male passenger in the Toyota Prius taxi and the 41-year-old female driver of the Toyota Prius taxi were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 May 2014
- Thursday, 10:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dennis and Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56407, longitude -0.35412, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roxeth, Harrow, HA2 8NW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401QA10218
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 312
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A312 in Harrow, 6 February 2007
At the same spotRef 200701QA10029
Serious
Jaguar X Type crash on the A312 in Harrow, 31 August 2006
At the same spotRef 200601QA10370
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A312 in Harrow, 7 May 2008
At the same spotRef 200801QA10177
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A312 in Harrow, 11 September 2011
At the same spotRef 201101QA10255
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harrow, 12 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200201QA09073
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A312 in Harrow, 29 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200401QA00205
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 5,883 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Prius
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Prius)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Prius)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 47, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 201401QA10218 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.