Serious A404 crash in Harrow on 5 August 1990 at 22:20 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A motorcycle and a Nissan Bluebird were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 22:20 on Sunday 5 August 1990. The 28-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Aug 1990
- Sunday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Nissan Bluebird
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58122, longitude -0.3489, 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
- 199001QA00601
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 slight injury crash on 27 March 1992.
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A404 in Harrow, 27 March 1992
At the same spotRef 199201QA00183
Serious
Toyota Previa crash on the A404 in Harrow, 7 December 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010482636
Slight
Lexus IS220 crash on the A404 in Harrow, 6 June 2015
10 m awayRef 201501QA10223
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A404 in Harrow, 15 September 1998
10 m awayRef 199801QA00615
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A404 in Harrow, 23 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199801QA00715
Slight
Daimler 4.2 crash on the A404 in Harrow, 29 October 1992
10 m awayRef 199201QA00675
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, 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 199001QA00601 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.