C road crash in Harrow HA3 on 1 January 1987 at 00:50 involving a car
A car hit four pedestrians on a C road in Harrow at 00:50 on Thursday 1 January 1987. All four casualties were slightly injured. Four of them were pedestrians.
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
- 1 Jan 1987
- Thursday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 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
- 198701QA00003
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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 31 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 31 December 1985
At the same spotRef 198501QA00883
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Harrow, 1 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198701QA00061
Slight
Renault 5 crash on a C road in Harrow, 6 May 1993
At the same spotRef 199301QA00269
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on a C road in Harrow, 15 April 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010569772
Slight
Honda NSC110MP crash on a C road in Harrow, 16 July 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010256878
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 28 February 2024
5 m awayRef 2024010496957
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 3: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 4: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198701QA00003 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 1987.