A4140 crash in Harrow on 23 April 2017 at 20:55 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on the A4140 in Harrow at 20:55 on Sunday 23 April 2017. The 57-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2017
- Sunday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59564, longitude -0.29465, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kenton East, Harrow, HA3 9JH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010033723
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 10 April 1986
At the same spotRef 198601QA00251
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 15 June 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00404
Slight
Daewoo Espero crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 13 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199801QA00750
Slight
Datsun Stanza crash on a C road in Harrow, 14 August 1990
10 m awayRef 199001QA00623
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on a C road in Harrow, 8 August 1992
10 m awayRef 199201QA00480
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Harrow, 13 February 2001
10 m awayRef 200101QD00095
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
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 2017010033723 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.