Serious A410 crash in Harrow on 17 May 1988 at 22:25 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A410 in Harrow at 22:25 on Tuesday 17 May 1988. The 53-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured and a 55-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 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 private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 May 1988
- Tuesday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60817, longitude -0.37291, 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
- 198801QA00342
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 410
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 1996.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A410 in Harrow, 26 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00684
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A410 in Harrow, 14 September 1995
At the same spotRef 199501QA00585
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A410 in Harrow, 21 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200301QA00441
Slight
Car crash on the A410 in Harrow, 6 February 2004
At the same spotRef 200401QA00062
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A410 in Harrow, 13 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198501QA00843
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A410 in Harrow, 12 May 2001
10 m awayRef 200101QA00359
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 55, 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 198801QA00342 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 1988.