C road crash in Harrow HA3 on 20 December 1985 at 12:30 involving a car
Two cars and a van were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 12:30 on Friday 20 December 1985. A 20-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 1985
- Friday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59305, longitude -0.29606, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501QA00858
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 1984.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 6 February 1984
10 m awayRef 198401QA00096
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Harrow, 21 June 1983
22 m awayRef 1983010QA0415
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Harrow, 26 January 1997
36 m awayRef 199701QA00076
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harrow, 3 September 2009
45 m awayRef 200901QA10327
Serious
Mercedes CLC Class crash on a C road in Harrow, 11 September 2022
47 m awayRef 2022010398874
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Harrow, 28 August 1988
72 m awayRef 198801QA00622
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198501QA00858 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.