Serious A409 crash in Harrow on 15 September 2017 at 09:54 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Suzuki AN 400 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 09:54 on Friday 15 September 2017. The 62-year-old male rider of the Suzuki AN 400 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Sep 2017
- Friday, 09:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Suzuki AN 400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58422, longitude -0.33217, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010059199
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 1995.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A409 in Harrow, 28 September 1995
At the same spotRef 199501QA00618
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 16 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200201QA00666
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A409 in Harrow, 20 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00893
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A409 in Harrow, 11 June 2004
At the same spotRef 200401QA00279
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A409 in Harrow, 23 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199801QA00798
Slight
Yamaha GPD 125 crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 11 June 2019
5 m awayRef 2019010186691
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki AN 400
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 385 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 62, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki AN 400)
- 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 2017010059199 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.