A409 crash in Harrow on 3 May 2017 at 22:21 involving a Smart Fortwo
A Smart Fortwo and a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 22:21 on Wednesday 3 May 2017. The 20-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 2017
- Wednesday, 22:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Smart Fortwo and Yamaha YZF R125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5862, longitude -0.33239, 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 2LG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010035359
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 2022.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A409 in Harrow, 24 October 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010406396
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the A409 in Harrow, 12 March 2023
7 m awayRef 2023010431913
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A409 in Harrow, 5 April 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010436036
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A409 in Harrow, 15 March 2022
10 m awayRef 2022010365587
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A409 in Harrow, 26 June 2002
10 m awayRef 200201QA00432
Slight
BMW Z4 crash on the A409 in Harrow, 10 July 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010126738
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Smart Fortwo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF R125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R125)
- 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 2017010035359 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.