Unclassified road crash in Harrow HA3 on 10 October 1983 at 20:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Harrow at 20:30 on Monday 10 October 1983. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 1983
- Monday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59604, longitude -0.34143, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010QA0687
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 1992.
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 23 April 1992
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Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 7 August 1997
20 m awayRef 199701QA00503
Slight
Alfa Romeo 164 crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 27 January 1996
22 m awayRef 199601QA00073
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 18 March 1999
22 m awayRef 199901QA00189
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 8 April 1982
36 m awayRef 1982010QA0245
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 27 August 1991
36 m awayRef 199101QA00521
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1983010QA0687 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.