A4005 crash in Harrow on 8 November 1985 at 11:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach, a car and two vans were involved in a crash on the A4005 in Harrow at 11:30 on Friday 8 November 1985. The 43-year-old female driver of vehicle 3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 1985
- Friday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 4
- Bus or coach and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58207, longitude -0.3327, 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
- 198501QA00725
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4005
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- 4005
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 1996.
Slight
Bus crash on the B457 in Harrow, 6 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00447
Slight
Bus crash on the A4005 in Harrow, 11 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010QA0547
Slight
Car crash on the B457 in Harrow, 26 June 1991
10 m awayRef 199101QA00395
Slight
Bus crash on the B457 in Harrow, 22 March 1993
10 m awayRef 199301QA00177
Slight
Car crash on the A4005 in Harrow, 1 October 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010QA0664
Slight
Car crash on the B457 in Harrow, 21 December 1995
14 m awayRef 199501QA00834
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
Vehicle 3: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 4: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, van occupant, in vehicle 3 (Van)
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 198501QA00725 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.