A409 crash in Harrow on 3 December 2018 at 18:42 involving a Ford Focus
Two Ford Focus cars and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 18:42 on Monday 3 December 2018. The 72-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2018
- Monday, 18:42
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Focus and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59395, longitude -0.33355, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010153158
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 2017.
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A409 in Harrow, 25 June 2017
14 m awayRef 2017010045386
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A409 in Harrow, 14 January 2023
24 m awayRef 2023010421365
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A409 in Harrow, 29 January 2023
27 m awayRef 2023010424202
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A409 in Harrow, 27 September 2011
30 m awayRef 201101QA10280
Serious
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A409 in Harrow, 2 June 2005
32 m awayRef 200501QA10205
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A409 in Harrow, 24 March 2010
32 m awayRef 201001QA10080
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2018010153158 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.