Serious unclassified road crash in Harrow HA1 on 26 November 1983 at 19:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Harrow at 19:20 on Saturday 26 November 1983. A 78-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Nov 1983
- Saturday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56048, longitude -0.33825, 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
- 1983010QA0820
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 2013.
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 15 March 1988
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 31 January 1996
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Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 10 February 2000
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Slight
Honda Jazz crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 14 October 2022
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 78, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 1983010QA0820 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.