Serious C road crash in Harrow HA5 on 25 August 1987 at 18:49 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 18:49 on Tuesday 25 August 1987. A 20-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Aug 1987
- Tuesday, 18:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57672, longitude -0.37446, in the HA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701QA00532
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2010.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 6 June 2010
At the same spotRef 201001QA10190
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 29 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801QA00224
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Harrow, 1 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200201QA00163
Slight
Austin crash on a C road in Harrow, 9 July 2000
At the same spotRef 200001QA00439
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on a C road in Harrow, 20 June 2004
At the same spotRef 200401QA00301
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Harrow, 9 May 1987
10 m awayRef 198701QA00283
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198701QA00532 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.