A4140 crash in Harrow on 17 October 1989 at 09:25 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4140 in Harrow at 09:25 on Tuesday 17 October 1989. The 31-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 28-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 1989
- Tuesday, 09:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62388, longitude -0.31976, in the HA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198901QA00764
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4140
- 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
- C
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 1 August 1990.
Serious
Ford Capri crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 1 August 1990
At the same spotRef 199001QA00591
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 3 May 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010440884
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 11 August 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010393352
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 7 January 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010QA0023
Slight
Car crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 20 November 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010QA0853
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 13 August 2010
10 m awayRef 201001QA10296
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198901QA00764 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.