C road crash in Harrow HA2 on 20 May 2017 at 08:24 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on a C road in Harrow at 08:24 on Saturday 20 May 2017. The 34-year-old female driver 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
- 20 May 2017
- Saturday, 08:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56962, longitude -0.35536, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harrow on the Hill, Harrow, HA2 0PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010038599
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 April 1994.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Harrow, 23 April 1994
10 m awayRef 199401QA00242
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Harrow, 5 May 1994
10 m awayRef 199401QA00259
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 18 April 1987
14 m awayRef 198701QA00236
Slight
Honda Accord crash on a C road in Harrow, 5 May 1991
14 m awayRef 199101QA00264
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on a C road in Harrow, 10 June 1998
20 m awayRef 199801QA00394
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Harrow, 8 November 1997
20 m awayRef 199701QA00748
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 2017010038599 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.