Unclassified road crash in Harrow HA5 on 30 July 1987 at 16:50 involving a van
A van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harrow at 16:50 on Thursday 30 July 1987. The 8-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 1987
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59726, longitude -0.39019, in the HA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701QA00475
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 2006.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A404 in Harrow, 15 September 2006
36 m awayRef 200601QA10403
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A404 in Harrow, 15 April 2018
40 m awayRef 2018010101931
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A404 in Harrow, 7 February 1998
41 m awayRef 199801QA00100
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A404 in Harrow, 7 October 2014
41 m awayRef 201401QA19011
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 13 September 1989
42 m awayRef 198901QA00668
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A404 in Harrow, 24 March 2014
45 m awayRef 201401QA10127
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 8, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198701QA00475 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.