Unclassified road crash in Harrow HA2 on 12 August 2018 at 08:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 08:30 on Sunday 12 August 2018. The 20-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2018
- Sunday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56477, longitude -0.35582, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roxeth, Harrow, HA2 8NW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010126812
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 2019.
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on a C road in Harrow, 20 May 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010181944
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 13 August 1985
14 m awayRef 198501QA00512
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 23 December 1990
14 m awayRef 199001QA01017
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Harrow, 27 August 2023
15 m awayRef 2023010462736
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 7 October 1982
22 m awayRef 1982010QA0673
Slight
Rover Metro crash on a C road in Harrow, 22 September 1998
28 m awayRef 199801QA00640
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2018010126812 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.