C road crash in Harrow HA8 on 1 October 1983 at 09:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 09:30 on Saturday 1 October 1983. The 76-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and an 8-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 1983
- Saturday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60521, longitude -0.27871, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010QA0670
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1983.
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Harrow, 20 December 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010QA0881
Slight
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11 m awayRef 2023010476339
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Harrow, 2 August 2024
14 m awayRef 2024010525025
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on a C road in Harrow, 30 June 2019
17 m awayRef 2019010190552
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harrow, 31 October 1999
22 m awayRef 199901QA00710
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Harrow, 27 October 1996
36 m awayRef 199601QA00733
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1983010QA0670 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.