C road crash in Harrow HA8 on 21 August 1988 at 17:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 17:40 on Sunday 21 August 1988. A 20-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 1988
- Sunday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60443, longitude -0.28683, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
Map of where the crash happened in Harrow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198801QA00604
- 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 1 March 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 1 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801QA00151
Serious
Leyland Cars Mini crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 3 February 1990
10 m awayRef 199001QA00122
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in Harrow, 4 July 1992
20 m awayRef 199201QA00404
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 20 December 1982
28 m awayRef 1982010QA0922
Slight
Datsun 120 crash on a C road in Harrow, 2 May 1992
41 m awayRef 199201QA00266
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on a C road in Harrow, 14 November 2022
45 m awayRef 2022010410643
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198801QA00604 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.