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A404 crash in Harrow on 30 December 1979 at 15:55 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 15:55 on Sunday 30 December 1979. An 18-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 and a 16-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
30 Dec 1979
Sunday, 15:55
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197901LUPLE99
Council area
Harrow
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
404
Road type
Dual 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
Dry

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    20 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Driver sex
    Male

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 16, 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 197901LUPLE99 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.