Serious unclassified road crash in Harrow on 30 December 1981 at 23:50 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Harrow at 23:50 on Wednesday 30 December 1981. A 17-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 30 Dec 1981; Wednesday, 23:50
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LUXKW90
Council area: Harrow
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
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: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 198101LUXKW90 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.