C road crash in Harrow HA7 on 8 May 2016 at 22:20 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on a C road in Harrow at 22:20 on Sunday 8 May 2016. The 66-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2016
- Sunday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60482, longitude -0.3112, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601QA10200
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 2014.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 16 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201401QA10117
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Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 12 June 2008
10 m awayRef 200801QA10188
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Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Harrow, 31 December 2011
10 m awayRef 201101QA10412
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Toyota Yaris crash on a C road in Harrow, 21 September 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010133937
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Honda WW125 crash on a C road in Harrow, 15 July 2023
11 m awayRef 2023010455429
Serious
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Harrow, 9 May 1998
14 m awayRef 199801QA00308
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 201601QA10200 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.