Unclassified road crash in Harrow HA2 on 7 December 2020 at 18:00 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus and a Nissan Note were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 18:00 on Monday 7 December 2020. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2020
- Monday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Alexander Dennis and Nissan Note
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58375, longitude -0.36754, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Harrow, Harrow, HA2 7TA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010283385
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 February 1997.
Serious
Volvo 345 crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 25 February 1997
14 m awayRef 199701QA00149
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 15 August 1997
14 m awayRef 199701QA00518
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 27 April 1996
14 m awayRef 199601QA00191
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 8 August 2003
43 m awayRef 200301QA00479
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 25 October 1984
65 m awayRef 198401QA00723
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 21 November 1996
73 m awayRef 199601QA00810
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 62, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Note)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020010283385 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 2020.