Unclassified road crash in Harrow HA3 on 1 November 2019 at 15:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo, a Mercedes C Class and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 15:30 on Friday 1 November 2019. The 66-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo and a 67-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2019
- Friday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Polo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58996, longitude -0.31373, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Centenary, Harrow, HA3 8SP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010215420
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Other
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 March 2015.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 12 March 2015
4 m awayRef 201501QA10166
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 18 March 1992
13 m awayRef 199201QA00234
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 28 May 1983
13 m awayRef 1983010QA0356
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 20 November 2004
17 m awayRef 200401QA00613
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 7 September 1984
35 m awayRef 198401QA00605
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 14 May 1987
40 m awayRef 198701QA00290
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2019010215420 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 2019.