C road crash in Harrow HA8 on 1 September 1985 at 02:45 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Harrow at 02:45 on Sunday 1 September 1985. The 17-year-old female driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 1985
- Sunday, 02:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60235, longitude -0.28604, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501QA00558
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 February 1982.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 19 February 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010QA0123
Slight
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10 m awayRef 199501QA00596
Slight
Jaguar XF Series crash on a C road in Harrow, 3 May 2021
16 m awayRef 2021010305296
Serious
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Harrow, 24 September 2013
20 m awayRef 201301QA10339
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on a C road in Harrow, 26 November 2025
28 m awayRef 2025010611780
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Harrow, 30 December 1992
28 m awayRef 199201QA00828
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198501QA00558 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.