A409 crash in Harrow on 10 December 1990 at 20:40 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A409 in Harrow at 20:40 on Monday 10 December 1990. The 32-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 1990
- Monday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60284, longitude -0.33859, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199001QA00971
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 409
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 August 1993.
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A409 in Harrow, 3 August 1993
10 m awayRef 199301QA00454
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A409 in Harrow, 31 August 2022
14 m awayRef 2022010397261
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A409 in Harrow, 2 June 2005
14 m awayRef 200501QA10180
Slight
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the A409 in Harrow, 29 July 2004
14 m awayRef 200401QA00384
Serious
Car crash on the A409 in Harrow, 15 October 2005
14 m awayRef 200501QA10414
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A409 in Harrow, 26 January 2014
20 m awayRef 201401QA10205
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,990 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199001QA00971 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.