A404 crash in Harrow on 25 December 1981 at 01:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 01:15 on Friday 25 December 1981. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and the 20-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 1981
- Friday, 01:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LPBDE91
- 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
- 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 (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198101LPBDE91 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 1981.