C road crash in Harrow HA1 on 18 January 2022 at 21:45 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Citroen DS4 were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 21:45 on Tuesday 18 January 2022. The 22-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2022
- Tuesday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Citroen DS4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58376, longitude -0.33303, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenhill, Harrow, HA1 2EN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010355486
- Council area
- Harrow
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 1997.
Slight
Leyland crash on a C road in Harrow, 18 May 1997
4 m awayRef 199701QA00350
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 1 October 1987
4 m awayRef 198701QA00639
Slight
Rover 75 crash on a C road in Harrow, 18 August 2005
8 m awayRef 200501QA10312
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 2 November 1988
8 m awayRef 198801QA00846
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Harrow, 27 September 2001
8 m awayRef 200101QA00699
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on a C road in Harrow, 26 July 2018
8 m awayRef 2018010123398
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen DS4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2022010355486 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 2022.