A312 crash in Harrow on 1 December 2022 at 18:35 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on the A312 in Harrow at 18:35 on Thursday 1 December 2022. A 30-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2022
- Thursday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55804, longitude -0.36115, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roxeth, Harrow, HA2 8NW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010413944
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 312
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 2020.
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A312 in Harrow, 1 May 2020
2 m awayRef 2020010246420
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A312 in Harrow, 19 June 2023
3 m awayRef 2023010450103
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A312 in Harrow, 13 May 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010180690
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the A312 in Harrow, 22 February 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010560500
Slight
Car crash on the A312 in Harrow, 5 April 1983
7 m awayRef 1983010QA0219
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A312 in Harrow, 27 August 1991
7 m awayRef 199101QA00535
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2022010413944 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.