Serious unclassified road crash in Harrow on 30 December 1979 at 00:05 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 00:05 on Sunday 30 December 1979. The 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 1979
- Sunday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LUABW92
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, 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 197901LUABW92 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.