Serious A404 crash in Brent on 13 December 2018 at 16:07 involving a Ford Galaxy taxi
A Ford Galaxy taxi and a Honda WW125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A404 in Brent at 16:07 on Thursday 13 December 2018. The 24-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Dec 2018
- Thursday, 16:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Galaxy and Honda WW125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54533, longitude -0.27331, in the HA9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tokyngton, Brent, HA9 6FE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brent
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010151982
- Council area
- Brent
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 11 December 2016.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A404 in Brent, 11 December 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010006317
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A404 in Brent, 20 January 2010
At the same spotRef 201001QK50036
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A404 in Brent, 19 July 2024
6 m awayRef 2024010522668
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A404 in Brent, 10 March 2009
10 m awayRef 200901QK50115
Slight
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on an unclassified road in Brent, 10 April 2014
10 m awayRef 201401QK50228
Slight
Bus crash on the A404 in Brent, 4 July 2008
10 m awayRef 200801QK50366
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda WW125)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018010151982 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.