B461 crash in Harrow on 6 October 1987 at 21:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B461 in Harrow at 21:05 on Tuesday 6 October 1987. The 30-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 1987
- Tuesday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60865, longitude -0.28667, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701QA00653
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 461
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 October 2003.
Slight
BMW M3 crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 22 October 2003
10 m awayRef 200301QA00604
Serious
Car crash on the B461 in Harrow, 28 May 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010QA0357
Slight
Car crash on the B461 in Harrow, 15 August 1985
10 m awayRef 198501QA00517
Slight
Toyota Previa crash on the B461 in Harrow, 17 December 2007
10 m awayRef 200701QA10366
Slight
Car crash on the B461 in Harrow, 29 January 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010QA0078
Slight
Car crash on the B461 in Harrow, 27 February 1995
14 m awayRef 199501QA00123
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198701QA00653 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.