Unclassified road crash in Harrow HA1 on 9 May 2017 at 09:13 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 09:13 on Tuesday 9 May 2017. A 49-year-old female passenger in the Alexander Dennis bus and a 17-year-old female passenger in the Alexander Dennis bus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 May 2017
- Tuesday, 09:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Alexander Dennis and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5775, longitude -0.33357, 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
- 2017010036234
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 404
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2025.
Slight
Kia Niro crash on the B457 in Harrow, 8 April 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010568471
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the B457 in Harrow, 25 March 2007
10 m awayRef 200701QA10105
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B457 in Harrow, 12 March 2007
10 m awayRef 200701QA10088
Slight
Bus crash on the B457 in Harrow, 22 April 1999
10 m awayRef 199901QA00289
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B457 in Harrow, 24 December 2004
14 m awayRef 200401QA09030
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B457 in Harrow, 26 September 1997
14 m awayRef 199701QA00609
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2017010036234 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.