A404 crash in Harrow on 3 March 2016 at 21:56 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 21:56 on Thursday 3 March 2016. The 58-year-old female driver of the Mercedes E Class and the 20-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Mar 2016
- Thursday, 21:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59029, longitude -0.36443, in the HA5 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601QA10201
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2005.
Slight
Chrysler Voyager crash on the A404 in Harrow, 21 December 2005
10 m awayRef 200501QA10536
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A404 in Harrow, 5 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200301QA00499
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A404 in Harrow, 20 June 2014
10 m awayRef 201401QA10307
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A404 in Harrow, 5 October 2010
14 m awayRef 201001QA10378
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 4 June 2008
20 m awayRef 200801QA10193
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 29 April 2010
20 m awayRef 201001QA10135
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201601QA10201 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.