Serious unclassified road crash in Harrow on 25 December 1979 at 13:20 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 13:20 on Tuesday 25 December 1979. The 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 25 Dec 1979; Tuesday, 13:20
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LPNEW97
Council area: Harrow
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Serious
Male, aged 20, 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 197901LPNEW97 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.