A4140 crash in Harrow on 25 January 2016 at 19:00 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
A Volkswagen Sharan and a Mercedes S Class were involved in a crash on the A4140 in Harrow at 19:00 on Monday 25 January 2016. A male passenger in the Mercedes S Class 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 2016
- Monday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Sharan and Mercedes S Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61428, longitude -0.30594, in the HA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stanmore, Harrow, HA7 4HJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601QA10245
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4140
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 1998.
Slight
Car crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 27 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199801QA00180
Slight
Mitsubishi Space Wagon crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 19 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200101QA00315
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 22 March 2016
At the same spotRef 201601QA10129
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 24 June 2014
At the same spotRef 201401QA10311
Slight
Renault 9 crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 10 May 1997
10 m awayRef 199701QA00326
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 31 January 1992
10 m awayRef 199201QA00055
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes S 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes S Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201601QA10245 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.