Serious C road crash in Harrow HA2 on 4 October 2023 at 16:45 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 hit a pedestrian on a C road in Harrow at 16:45 on Wednesday 4 October 2023. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Oct 2023
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57237, longitude -0.35335, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harrow on the Hill, Harrow, HA2 0PJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010469981
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harrow, 10 May 1991
6 m awayRef 199101QA00276
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 26 March 1987
11 m awayRef 198701QA00186
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Harrow, 29 December 2008
12 m awayRef 200801QA19003
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Harrow, 18 November 2019
12 m awayRef 2019010219228
Slight
MG HS crash on a C road in Harrow, 5 May 2024
12 m awayRef 2024010508702
Slight
Volvo crash on a C road in Harrow, 15 April 2011
14 m awayRef 201101QA10097
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2023010469981 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 2023.