A312 crash in Harrow on 12 April 2018 at 11:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Piaggio Liberty motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A312 in Harrow at 11:00 on Thursday 12 April 2018. The 26-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Liberty motorcycle 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
- 12 Apr 2018
- Thursday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Piaggio Liberty
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57727, longitude -0.34296, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010102579
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 312
- 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
- C
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 22 November 1991.
Slight
Datsun Cherry crash on the A312 in Harrow, 22 November 1991
10 m awayRef 199101QA00763
Slight
Leyland crash on a C road in Harrow, 18 August 1998
10 m awayRef 199801QA00551
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A312 in Harrow, 4 September 1998
10 m awayRef 199801QA00587
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A312 in Harrow, 14 May 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010110305
Serious
Car crash on the A312 in Harrow, 15 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198501QA00743
Slight
Car crash on the A312 in Harrow, 15 December 1989
10 m awayRef 198901QA00958
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Liberty
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Liberty)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018010102579 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 2018.