C road crash in Harrow HA7 on 12 August 1983 at 12:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 12:25 on Friday 12 August 1983. The 36-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and the 74-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 1983
- Friday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61968, longitude -0.30908, 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
- 1983010QA0539
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 October 1990.
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Austin Metro crash on a C road in Harrow, 8 October 1990
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10 m awayRef 198601QA00420
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Motorcycle crash on a C road in Harrow, 10 June 1984
14 m awayRef 198401QA00384
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 2 September 1984
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1983010QA0539 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.