A4140 crash in Harrow on 5 May 1983 at 14:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4140 in Harrow at 14:30 on Thursday 5 May 1983. The 39-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and a 38-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 May 1983
- Thursday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59563, longitude -0.2938, in the HA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010QA0287
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4140
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 18 March 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010QA0166
Slight
Honda crash on a C road in Harrow, 19 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200101QK00725
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Harrow, 6 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200101QA00534
Slight
Car crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 8 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198501QA00710
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 4 December 2021
9 m awayRef 2021010348069
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 10 April 1993
10 m awayRef 199301QA00242
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 38, 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 1983010QA0287 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 1983.