B461 crash in Harrow on 29 October 1988 at 21:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a van were involved in a crash on the B461 in Harrow at 21:20 on Saturday 29 October 1988. The 17-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 1988
- Saturday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61053, longitude -0.27981, 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
- 198801QA00822
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 serious injury crash on 19 March 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the B461 in Harrow, 19 March 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010QA0171
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B461 in Barnet, 12 December 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010077139
Slight
Car crash on the B461 in Harrow, 27 July 2012
At the same spotRef 201201QA10248
Slight
Taxi crash on the B461 in Harrow, 30 January 1995
At the same spotRef 199501QA00064
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B461 in Barnet, 26 November 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010413031
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B461 in Harrow, 7 November 2007
10 m awayRef 200701QA10333
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, 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 198801QA00822 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.