Serious C road crash in Harrow HA2 on 11 February 1982 at 19:44 involving a van
Two vans were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 19:44 on Thursday 11 February 1982. The 35-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured and the 23-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Feb 1982
- Thursday, 19:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56504, longitude -0.35583, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010QA0110
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1982.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 29 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010QA0935
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Harrow, 18 January 1994
10 m awayRef 199401QA00059
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 23 October 1984
14 m awayRef 198401QA00721
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 13 March 1988
14 m awayRef 198801QA00168
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Harrow, 27 August 2023
17 m awayRef 2023010462736
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on a C road in Harrow, 20 November 1995
20 m awayRef 199501QA00755
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 1982010QA0110 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 1982.