A404 crash in Harrow on 7 December 1983 at 17:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 17:10 on Wednesday 7 December 1983. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 7 Dec 1983
- Wednesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59147, longitude -0.38101, in the HA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010QA0855
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2017.
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Ford S-Max crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 3 March 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010022613
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Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 10 March 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010QA0164
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Citroen Berlingo crash on the A404 in Harrow, 9 March 2007
At the same spotRef 200701QA10100
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 7 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198801QA00655
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Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 14 February 2024
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Bus crash on the A404 in Harrow, 13 February 2019
6 m awayRef 2019010163459
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
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 1983010QA0855 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.