Serious A4090 crash in Harrow on 9 July 1988 at 20:05 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Jul 1988
- Saturday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57019, longitude -0.37051, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198801QA00489
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4090
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2020.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 7 May 2020
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Cupra Born crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 2 September 2025
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 25 May 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010QA0340
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 7 December 2008
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Slight
Kawasaki VN800 crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 11 November 2004
10 m awayRef 200401QA00601
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 23 May 2001
10 m awayRef 200101QA00449
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (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 198801QA00489 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.