A4005 crash in Harrow on 5 December 1983 at 21:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A4005 in Harrow at 21:40 on Monday 5 December 1983. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 1983
- Monday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56985, longitude -0.33979, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010QA0840
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4005
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 2008.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B457 in Harrow, 4 January 2008
10 m awayRef 200801QA10046
Slight
Car crash on the A4005 in Harrow, 19 September 1985
10 m awayRef 198501QA00602
Slight
Car crash on the B457 in Harrow, 25 October 2011
14 m awayRef 201101QA10320
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B457 in Harrow, 19 February 1996
14 m awayRef 199601QA00135
Slight
Car crash on the A4005 in Harrow, 6 May 1989
20 m awayRef 198901QA00329
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the B457 in Harrow, 8 March 2006
22 m awayRef 200601QA10074
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 1983010QA0840 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.