Unclassified road crash in Harrow HA7 on 15 January 2016 at 19:45 involving a Mercedes B Class
A Mercedes B Class and a Vauxhall Combo van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 19:45 on Friday 15 January 2016. The 23-year-old male driver of the Mercedes B Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 2016
- Friday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes B Class and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5996, longitude -0.31096, in the HA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belmont, Harrow, HA7 2QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601QA10072
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 January 1989.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 19 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198901QA00047
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 18 April 1990
At the same spotRef 199001QA00316
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 1 March 2006
At the same spotRef 200601QA10056
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 14 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801QA00172
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 17 May 2007
At the same spotRef 200701QA62208
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 23 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199401QA00835
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes B Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes B 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 201601QA10072 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.