A4090 crash in Harrow on 29 October 2016 at 20:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A4090 in Harrow at 20:00 on Saturday 29 October 2016. The 42-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2016
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57087, longitude -0.37105, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Harrow, Harrow, HA2 7JL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010030315
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4090
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 16 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198801QA00680
Slight
Honda H100S crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 13 September 1991
At the same spotRef 199101QA00569
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 29 March 2015
At the same spotRef 201501QA10142
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 6 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00441
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 29 January 2016
At the same spotRef 201601QA10056
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 26 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401QA00138
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2016010030315 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.