A4127 crash in Harrow on 30 August 2016 at 18:15 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A Volkswagen Touran and a Mazda MX-5 were involved in a crash on the A4127 in Harrow at 18:15 on Tuesday 30 August 2016. The 56-year-old male driver of the Mazda MX-5 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2016
- Tuesday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Touran and Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5608, longitude -0.33318, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northwick Park, Brent, HA1 3TD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601QA10358
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4127
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2014.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A4127 in Harrow, 28 December 2014
10 m awayRef 201401QA10591
Slight
Car crash on the A4127 in Harrow, 1 April 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010QA0203
Fatal
Yamaha XC crash on the A4127 in Harrow, 10 March 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010563150
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4127 in Harrow, 19 January 1991
14 m awayRef 199101QA00048
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A4127 in Harrow, 21 October 2025
23 m awayRef 2025010604954
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4127 in Harrow, 19 December 2006
28 m awayRef 200601QA19047
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda MX-5)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 201601QA10358 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.