Fatal C road crash in Harrow HA8 on 22 September 1987 at 17:20 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 17:20 on Tuesday 22 September 1987. The 58-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 22 Sep 1987
- Tuesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60356, longitude -0.28268, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701QA00600
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 April 1993.
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Morris Marina crash on a C road in Harrow, 22 April 1993
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Honda CG125C crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 21 January 1995
22 m awayRef 199501QA00042
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 8 December 1988
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198701QA00600 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.