A409 crash in Harrow on 25 December 1979 at 10:35 involving a car

A car crashed on the A409 in Harrow at 10:35 on Tuesday 25 December 1979. The 67-year-old male driver and a female passenger were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 25 Dec 1979; Tuesday, 10:35
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 2 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LPKHE93
Council area: Harrow
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 409
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
65 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
Slight
Female, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 197901LPKHE93 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 1979.