Unclassified road crash in Harrow HA5 on 2 August 1989 at 23:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Harrow at 23:20 on Wednesday 2 August 1989. A 28-year-old male pedestrian 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 1989
- Wednesday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58608, longitude -0.38164, in the HA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198901QA00565
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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 serious injury crash on 11 June 1991.
Serious
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 11 June 1991
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Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 16 September 1991
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Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 18 October 1990
At the same spotRef 199001QA00801
Serious
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Audi E-Tron crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 4 October 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198901QA00565 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 1989.