A404 crash in Harrow on 26 December 2015 at 11:46 involving a Mercedes C Class
A car and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 11:46 on Saturday 26 December 2015. The 29-year-old male driver of the car and the 66-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2015
- Saturday, 11:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58469, longitude -0.35917, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Harrow, Harrow, HA2 7TA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501QA19004
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 1997.
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 2 November 1997
14 m awayRef 199701QA00725
Slight
Kawasaki EX crash on the A404 in Harrow, 18 September 2022
29 m awayRef 2022010399951
Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A404 in Harrow, 15 July 1999
36 m awayRef 199901QA00463
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A404 in Harrow, 5 August 1997
42 m awayRef 199701QA00492
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 15 April 1996
42 m awayRef 199601QA00041
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 3 September 1988
45 m awayRef 198801QA00645
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
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 201501QA19004 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.