C road crash in Harrow HA3 on 1 July 1983 at 22:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 22:00 on Friday 1 July 1983. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 1983
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59102, longitude -0.29816, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010QA0444
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 1990.
Slight
Talbot Samba crash on a C road in Harrow, 9 July 1990
10 m awayRef 199001QA00537
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Harrow, 5 May 1986
20 m awayRef 198601QA00301
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 28 August 1988
30 m awayRef 198801QA00623
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 22 July 1988
32 m awayRef 198801QA00524
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on a C road in Harrow, 21 July 1991
36 m awayRef 199101QA00440
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Harrow, 15 June 2020
47 m awayRef 2020010253073
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1983010QA0444 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.