Serious unclassified road crash in Harrow HA1 on 16 June 1990 at 09:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Harrow at 09:10 on Saturday 16 June 1990. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jun 1990
- Saturday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58047, longitude -0.35326, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199001QA00481
- 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
- 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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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,288 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 199001QA00481 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 1990.