C road crash in Brent NW2 on 31 December 2018 at 02:08 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa, a Toyota Prius taxi and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Brent at 02:08 on Monday 31 December 2018. The 19-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa, a 17-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa and the 48-year-old male driver of the Toyota Prius taxi were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2018
- Monday, 02:08
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Corsa and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54317, longitude -0.2245, in the NW2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Willesden Green, Brent, NW10 2SF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brent
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010155036
- Council area
- Brent
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 30 May 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Brent, 30 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198901QK00366
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Brent, 29 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401QK00748
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Brent, 28 October 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010QK0765
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Brent, 21 January 1990
At the same spotRef 199001QK00044
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Brent, 9 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198801QK00737
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Brent, 3 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199301QK00472
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Toyota Prius
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Prius)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018010155036 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.