C road crash in Harrow HA2 on 29 December 1988 at 11:10 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 11:10 on Thursday 29 December 1988. The 85-year-old female driver of the car 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
- 29 Dec 1988
- Thursday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56846, longitude -0.35629, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198801QA01016
- 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
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The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 2021.
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Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 10 September 1988
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 85 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 85, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198801QA01016 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.