C road crash in Harrow HA3 on 31 December 1985 at 18:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 18:45 on Tuesday 31 December 1985. The 63-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1985
- Tuesday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59536, longitude -0.31229, 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
- 198501QA00883
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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 1 February 1987.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Harrow, 1 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198701QA00061
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 1 January 1987
At the same spotRef 198701QA00003
Slight
Renault 5 crash on a C road in Harrow, 6 May 1993
At the same spotRef 199301QA00269
Serious
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Slight
Honda NSC110MP crash on a C road in Harrow, 16 July 2020
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 28 February 2024
5 m awayRef 2024010496957
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198501QA00883 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.