Serious C road crash in Harrow HA5 on 28 December 1990 at 00:23 involving a Ford Cortina
A Ford Cortina hit a pedestrian on a C road in Harrow at 00:23 on Friday 28 December 1990. A 17-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 1990
- Friday, 00:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Cortina
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57672, longitude -0.37432, in the HA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199001QA01045
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Unclassified
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 9 May 1987.
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Harrow, 9 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198701QA00283
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Jaguar X Type crash on a C road in Harrow, 20 June 2004
10 m awayRef 200401QA00301
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Harrow, 1 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200201QA00163
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Harrow, 28 September 1990
10 m awayRef 199001QA00741
Slight
Austin crash on a C road in Harrow, 9 July 2000
10 m awayRef 200001QA00439
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 6 June 2010
10 m awayRef 201001QA10190
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Cortina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Cortina)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 199001QA01045 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.