C road crash in Harrow HA5 on 18 June 1985 at 23:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Harrow at 23:00 on Tuesday 18 June 1985. The 26-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jun 1985
- Tuesday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59047, longitude -0.38032, 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
- 198501QA00377
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 404
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 January 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 13 January 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010QA0029
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 2 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010QA0222
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harrow, 6 April 2002
At the same spotRef 200201QA00272
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A404 in Harrow, 16 June 2020
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Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on a C road in Harrow, 11 October 2000
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Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A404 in Harrow, 4 October 2014
10 m awayRef 201401QA10463
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 198501QA00377 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 1985.