A404 crash in Harrow on 25 December 1979 at 11:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A404 in Harrow at 11:00 on Tuesday 25 December 1979. The 27-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a snow-covered roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Slight
Date: 25 Dec 1979; Tuesday, 11:00
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LPLAE99
Council area: Harrow
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 404
Road type: Roundabout
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
26 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

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 197901LPLAE99 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.