A409 crash in Harrow on 21 April 2016 at 19:22 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 19:22 on Thursday 21 April 2016. The 18-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra and the 34-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2016
- Thursday, 19:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58035, longitude -0.329, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenhill, Harrow, HA1 2EN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601QA10212
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 409
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 2020.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A409 in Harrow, 28 January 2020
8 m awayRef 2020010233280
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A409 in Harrow, 10 May 2002
10 m awayRef 200201QA00343
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A409 in Harrow, 5 August 1994
10 m awayRef 199401QA00480
Slight
Honda crash on the A409 in Harrow, 28 March 1999
10 m awayRef 199901QA00222
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A409 in Harrow, 9 September 1997
10 m awayRef 199701QA00578
Serious
Porsche Cayenne crash on the A409 in Harrow, 14 May 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010107857
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 201601QA10212 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.