A4088 crash in Brent on 15 August 2018 at 10:43 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A4088 in Brent at 10:43 on Wednesday 15 August 2018. The 32-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2018
- Wednesday, 10:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56358, longitude -0.2605, in the NW10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Welsh Harp, Brent, NW10 0DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brent
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010127159
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 1994.
Slight
Car crash on the A4088 in Brent, 27 April 1994
At the same spotRef 199401QD00266
Slight
Dennis crash on the A4088 in Brent, 15 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200201QK00763
Slight
Car crash on the A4088 in Brent, 29 December 1989
At the same spotRef 198901QD00783
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the A4088 in Brent, 10 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200101QK00917
Slight
Honda NSS crash on the A4088 in Brent, 21 August 2021
6 m awayRef 2021010325698
Slight
Scania crash on the A4088 in Brent, 30 December 2019
8 m awayRef 2019010227819
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2018010127159 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.