A410 crash in Harrow on 19 November 2016 at 19:20 involving a Vauxhall Zafira taxi
A Vauxhall Zafira taxi and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A410 in Harrow at 19:20 on Saturday 19 November 2016. The 61-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Zafira taxi and a 35-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira taxi were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2016
- Saturday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60931, longitude -0.35523, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harrow Weald, Harrow, HA3 6NB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010002404
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 410
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 1999.
Slight
Car crash on the A410 in Harrow, 26 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199901QA00484
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Harrow, 14 June 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010114269
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A410 in Harrow, 17 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00478
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A410 in Harrow, 21 April 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00221
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on a C road in Harrow, 30 August 1993
At the same spotRef 199301QA00512
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on a C road in Harrow, 7 March 1991
At the same spotRef 199101QA00132
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 35, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 2016010002404 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 2016.