Serious A4088 crash in Brent on 13 April 2018 at 18:12 involving a BMW 1 Series
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Apr 2018
- Friday, 18:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56545, longitude -0.27125, 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 9UP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brent
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010101784
- Council area
- Brent
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4088
- 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
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 25 July 2017.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A4088 in Brent, 25 July 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010050293
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A4088 in Brent, 12 October 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010603237
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the A4088 in Brent, 23 March 2003
10 m awayRef 200301QK00285
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4088 in Brent, 29 July 2010
10 m awayRef 201001QK50549
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4088 in Brent, 26 July 2015
14 m awayRef 201501QK50562
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4088 in Brent, 1 August 1995
14 m awayRef 199501QD00396
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2018010101784 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 2018.