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Serious unclassified road crash in Harrow HA3 on 1 September 1983 at 15:48 involving a car

Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 15:48 on Thursday 1 September 1983. The 79-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured and a 34-year-old male pedestrian hit by vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
1 Sep 1983
Thursday, 15:48
Vehicles
3
Car and 2 others
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60549, longitude -0.34816, in the HA3 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
1983010QA0579
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
T or staggered junction
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 1984.

Vehicles involved (3)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Parked vehicle
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    79 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Back

  • Vehicle 3: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    North
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    First point of impact
    Back

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge

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 1983010QA0579 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.