Unclassified road crash in Harrow HA1 on 26 August 1987 at 19:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Harrow at 19:35 on Wednesday 26 August 1987. A 2-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 1987
- Wednesday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58093, longitude -0.35367, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701QA00533
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 19 June 1987
10 m awayRef 198701QA00378
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 19 March 1993
20 m awayRef 199301QA00174
Slight
BMW X5 crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 13 July 2024
30 m awayRef 2024010521537
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 8 May 1982
32 m awayRef 1982010QA0314
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 13 November 2025
47 m awayRef 2025010609754
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 16 June 1990
58 m awayRef 199001QA00481
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 2, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198701QA00533 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.