A409 crash in Harrow on 22 May 2015 at 23:55 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a Volkswagen Urban were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 23:55 on Friday 22 May 2015. The 61-year-old female driver of the Mercedes A Class and an 83-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes A Class were 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
- 22 May 2015
- Friday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and Volkswagen Urban
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60077, longitude -0.33852, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wealdstone North, Harrow, HA3 5PL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501QA10210
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 409
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 1997.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A409 in Harrow, 15 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00265
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A409 in Harrow, 5 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00852
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A409 in Harrow, 9 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200601QA10299
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A409 in Harrow, 31 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200001QA09118
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A409 in Harrow, 31 October 2009
10 m awayRef 200901QA10410
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A409 in Harrow, 25 September 2019
14 m awayRef 2019010207660
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Urban
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- 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 201501QA10210 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.