C road crash in Harrow HA1 on 8 April 2017 at 15:56 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on a C road in Harrow at 15:56 on Saturday 8 April 2017. A 36-year-old female passenger 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
- 8 Apr 2017
- Saturday, 15:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58107, longitude -0.3382, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010031029
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 1998.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on a C road in Harrow, 23 November 1998
10 m awayRef 199801QA00782
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 6 May 1997
10 m awayRef 199701QA00307
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on a C road in Harrow, 27 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200401QA00146
Serious
Lorry crash on a C road in Harrow, 1 September 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010QA0578
Slight
Volvo crash on a C road in Harrow, 24 April 2010
10 m awayRef 201001QA10115
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Harrow, 19 December 2006
10 m awayRef 200601QA10550
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,132 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017010031029 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 2017.