A4140 crash in Harrow on 17 May 1987 at 16:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4140 in Harrow at 16:15 on Sunday 17 May 1987. The 21-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 65-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 1987
- Sunday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61124, longitude -0.30376, in the HA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701QA00299
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4140
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 1987.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 27 October 1987
10 m awayRef 198701QA00736
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 14 December 2019
12 m awayRef 2019010225085
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 9 April 1989
14 m awayRef 198901QA00280
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 1 March 1992
14 m awayRef 199201QA00125
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 3 November 1993
14 m awayRef 199301QA00697
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 14 January 1996
22 m awayRef 199601QA00031
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, 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 198701QA00299 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.