B461 crash in Harrow on 11 September 1989 at 19:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a van were involved in a crash on the B461 in Harrow at 19:30 on Monday 11 September 1989. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and an 18-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Sep 1989
- Monday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and van
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60754, longitude -0.29047, 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
- 198901QA00657
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 2014.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B461 in Harrow, 24 July 2014
10 m awayRef 201401QA10376
Slight
Car crash on the B461 in Harrow, 8 January 1988
10 m awayRef 198801QA00017
Slight
Car crash on the B461 in Harrow, 1 February 1988
10 m awayRef 198801QA00077
Slight
Van crash on the B461 in Harrow, 23 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198801QA00618
Slight
Bedford crash on the B461 in Harrow, 17 February 1994
10 m awayRef 199401QA00103
Slight
Car crash on the B461 in Harrow, 10 October 2006
10 m awayRef 200601QA10450
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, 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 198901QA00657 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.