A409 crash in Harrow on 9 August 2018 at 20:33 involving a Mercedes ML Class
A Mercedes ML Class and a car were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 20:33 on Thursday 9 August 2018. The 35-year-old male driver of the Mercedes ML Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 2018
- Thursday, 20:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes ML Class and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59359, longitude -0.33341, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marlborough, Harrow, HA1 1XH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010126148
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 2 January 2010.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A409 in Harrow, 2 January 2010
10 m awayRef 201001QA10067
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 19 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199901QA00792
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A409 in Harrow, 22 May 2013
10 m awayRef 201301QA10182
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A409 in Harrow, 24 March 2010
10 m awayRef 201001QA10080
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 27 August 1998
10 m awayRef 199801QA00566
Serious
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A409 in Harrow, 2 June 2005
10 m awayRef 200501QA10205
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes ML Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,688 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes ML Class)
- 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 2018010126148 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.