Serious C road crash in Harrow HA7 on 5 April 1987 at 09:08 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 09:08 on Sunday 5 April 1987. The 27-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Apr 1987
- Sunday, 09:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6289, longitude -0.3122, in the HA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701QA00220
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 2001.
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on a C road in Harrow, 9 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200101QA00181
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 30 March 1985
10 m awayRef 198501QA00179
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 12 April 1987
10 m awayRef 198701QA00229
Slight
Audi S3 crash on a C road in Harrow, 21 December 2015
36 m awayRef 201501QA10525
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harrow, 10 October 1996
36 m awayRef 199601QA00691
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 2 December 1988
130 m awayRef 198801QA00940
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198701QA00220 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.