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A404 crash in Harrow on 6 October 1989 at 08:40 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter hit a pedestrian on the A404 in Harrow at 08:40 on Friday 6 October 1989. The 51-year-old male rider and a male pedestrian were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
6 Oct 1989
Friday, 08:40
Vehicles
1
Motor scooter
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58197, longitude -0.35133, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198901QA00736
Council area
Harrow
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
404
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
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    51 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 51, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, hit by vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 198901QA00736 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.