Serious A4140 crash in Harrow on 2 October 2017 at 18:06 involving a Mercedes Gle Class
A Mercedes Gle Class and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A4140 in Harrow at 18:06 on Monday 2 October 2017. A 6-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Oct 2017
- Monday, 18:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Gle Class and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61161, longitude -0.3043, in the HA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stanmore, Harrow, HA7 4HJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010062154
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4140
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2015.
Slight
Lexus RX450 crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 31 October 2015
10 m awayRef 201501QA10475
Slight
Tesla Model Y crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 23 August 2025
18 m awayRef 2025010598245
Slight
Car crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 23 July 1989
20 m awayRef 198901QA00552
Slight
Car crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 14 February 1987
20 m awayRef 198701QA00095
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 25 March 1999
20 m awayRef 199901QA00216
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 7 November 2008
20 m awayRef 200801QA10401
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Gle Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2017010062154 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.