Serious A4140 crash in Harrow on 3 October 1990 at 16:15 involving a Peugeot 305 van
A Peugeot 305 van hit a pedestrian on the A4140 in Harrow at 16:15 on Wednesday 3 October 1990. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured. One of them was a pedestrian.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Oct 1990
- Wednesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 305
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60679, longitude -0.30089, in the HA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199001QA00756
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4140
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 19 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198501QA00759
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 17 February 1993
10 m awayRef 199301QA00112
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 16 December 1994
10 m awayRef 199401QA00805
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 7 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199701QA00016
Slight
Car crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 6 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199901QA00592
Slight
Mercedes Gla Class crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 3 April 2025
22 m awayRef 2025010567654
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 305
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 305)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 305)
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 47, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 305)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 25, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 305)
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 199001QA00756 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.