Serious C road crash in Harrow HA3 on 21 June 1983 at 18:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on a C road in Harrow at 18:45 on Tuesday 21 June 1983. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jun 1983
- Tuesday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59297, longitude -0.29636, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010QA0415
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 20 December 1985
22 m awayRef 198501QA00858
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 6 February 1984
28 m awayRef 198401QA00096
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Harrow, 26 January 1997
57 m awayRef 199701QA00076
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harrow, 3 September 2009
64 m awayRef 200901QA10327
Serious
Mercedes CLC Class crash on a C road in Harrow, 11 September 2022
67 m awayRef 2022010398874
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 18 July 1983
81 m awayRef 1983010QA0481
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1983010QA0415 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.