Serious C road crash in Harrow HA1 on 1 September 1983 at 11:10 involving a lorry
A lorry hit a pedestrian on a C road in Harrow at 11:10 on Thursday 1 September 1983. A 77-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Sep 1983
- Thursday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58116, longitude -0.33822, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010QA0578
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2017.
Slight
Volvo crash on a C road in Harrow, 8 April 2017
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Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on a C road in Harrow, 23 November 1998
14 m awayRef 199801QA00782
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on a C road in Harrow, 27 March 2004
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 6 May 1997
14 m awayRef 199701QA00307
Slight
Volvo crash on a C road in Harrow, 24 April 2010
14 m awayRef 201001QA10115
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Harrow, 19 December 2006
14 m awayRef 200601QA10550
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 77, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)
- 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 1983010QA0578 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.