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Serious unclassified road crash in Harrow HA1 on 15 May 1983 at 01:00 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 01:00 on Sunday 15 May 1983. The 67-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured and a 20-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
15 May 1983
Sunday, 01:00
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58449, longitude -0.35152, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.

Map of where the crash happened in Harrow

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983010QA0312
Council area
Harrow
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1983.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    67 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1983010QA0312 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.