A4090 crash in Harrow on 27 December 1980 at 04:15 involving a car

A car crashed on the A4090 in Harrow at 04:15 on Saturday 27 December 1980. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1980; Saturday, 04:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198001LRED890
Council area: Harrow
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 4090
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 40 mph

Junction information

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

Environmental conditions

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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
23 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 22, 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 198001LRED890 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 1980.