C road crash in Harrow HA2 on 7 January 2015 at 16:12 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 and a Smart Roadster were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 16:12 on Wednesday 7 January 2015. The 87-year-old male driver of the Citroen C3 and an 87-year-old female passenger in the Citroen C3 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jan 2015
- Wednesday, 16:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C3 and Smart Roadster
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59117, longitude -0.35301, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Headstone, Harrow, HA1 4QY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501QA10015
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2001.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Harrow, 8 October 2001
10 m awayRef 200101QA00735
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 15 January 1988
10 m awayRef 198801QA00041
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 30 October 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010QA0744
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on a C road in Harrow, 27 April 2023
21 m awayRef 2023010439905
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 14 February 1986
22 m awayRef 198601QA00116
Slight
Honda Accord crash on a C road in Harrow, 12 April 2011
22 m awayRef 201101QA10096
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 87 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Smart Roadster
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 87, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 87, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 201501QA10015 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 2015.