B461 crash in Harrow on 10 March 2015 at 20:00 involving a Mercedes E Class
A motorcycle and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on the B461 in Harrow at 20:00 on Tuesday 10 March 2015. The 25-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2015
- Tuesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60983, longitude -0.28099, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burnt Oak, Barnet, HA8 9AA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501QA10151
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 461
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2005.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B461 in Harrow, 19 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200501QA10532
Slight
Datsun Stanza crash on the B461 in Harrow, 18 March 1994
At the same spotRef 199401QA00156
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B461 in Harrow, 2 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199701QA00172
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B461 in Harrow, 22 July 2011
10 m awayRef 201101QA10202
Slight
Car crash on the B461 in Harrow, 19 September 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010QA0625
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the B461 in Harrow, 12 August 1998
10 m awayRef 199801QA00526
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201501QA10151 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.