Serious A404 crash in Harrow on 6 December 1983 at 03:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 03:30 on Tuesday 6 December 1983. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Dec 1983
- Tuesday, 03:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58967, longitude -0.37472, in the HA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010QA0846
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2012.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A404 in Harrow, 17 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201201QA10084
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 26 March 1985
At the same spotRef 198501QA00174
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A404 in Harrow, 22 April 2016
At the same spotRef 201601QA10187
Serious
Van crash on the A404 in Harrow, 30 July 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010QA0512
Slight
Bus crash on the A404 in Harrow, 29 October 2012
28 m awayRef 201201QA10365
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A404 in Harrow, 16 April 1992
45 m awayRef 199201QA00214
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1983010QA0846 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.