Unclassified road crash in Harrow on 27 December 1979 at 14:05 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 14:05 on Thursday 27 December 1979. The 26-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and a 4-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1979
- Thursday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LROBW97
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 197901LROBW97 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.