A409 crash in Harrow on 7 May 2017 at 01:31 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Toyota Auris were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 01:31 on Sunday 7 May 2017. The 32-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 2017
- Sunday, 01:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Toyota Auris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58031, longitude -0.3287, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010035906
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2001.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A409 in Harrow, 9 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200101QA00549
Serious
Dennis crash on the A409 in Harrow, 23 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200101QA00688
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A409 in Harrow, 3 February 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010015902
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A409 in Harrow, 12 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199801QA00680
Slight
Chevrolet Orlando crash on the A409 in Harrow, 4 March 2015
At the same spotRef 201501QA10102
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A409 in Harrow, 10 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200501QA10137
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017010035906 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.