Serious unclassified road crash in Harrow HA2 on 31 August 1983 at 17:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Harrow at 17:20 on Wednesday 31 August 1983. An 11-year-old female 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
- 31 Aug 1983
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58708, longitude -0.36919, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010QA0587
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 2000.
Slight
Piaggio Typhoon crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 3 January 2000
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Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 7 July 2007
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 3 February 1987
175 m awayRef 198701QA00072
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 15 June 1999
177 m awayRef 199901QA00399
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 20 January 2000
178 m awayRef 200001QA00122
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 21 November 2025
191 m awayRef 2025010610822
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1983010QA0587 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.