A404 crash in Harrow on 31 December 1979 at 03:05 involving a car

A car crashed on the A404 in Harrow at 03:05 on Monday 31 December 1979. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 31 Dec 1979; Monday, 03:05
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LVDBE92
Council area: Harrow
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 404
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning left
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 36, 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 197901LVDBE92 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.