A5 crash in Harrow on 27 December 1981 at 09:15 involving a car

A car crashed on the A5 in Harrow at 09:15 on Sunday 27 December 1981. A 27-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in snow on a road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1981; Sunday, 09:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LRJDE94
Council area: Harrow
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 5
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Snowing, no high winds
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
26 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front 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 198101LRJDE94 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.