A4140 crash in Brent on 21 December 2017 at 16:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A4140 in Brent at 16:30 on Thursday 21 December 2017. The 46-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57449, longitude -0.2748, in the HA9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnhill, Brent, HA9 9PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brent
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010079553
- Council area
- Brent
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4140
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 November 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A4140 in Brent, 8 November 1987
10 m awayRef 198701QD00610
Serious
Car crash on the A4140 in Brent, 23 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198501QD00240
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4140 in Brent, 9 May 1994
14 m awayRef 199401QD00282
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A4140 in Brent, 5 May 2017
14 m awayRef 2017010036335
Serious
Car crash on the A4140 in Brent, 24 October 1987
22 m awayRef 198701QD00580
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4140 in Brent, 26 August 1993
30 m awayRef 199301QD00469
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017010079553 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brent road accident statistics for 2017.