A404 crash in Harrow on 14 December 1993 at 21:45 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A motorcycle and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A404 in Harrow at 21:45 on Tuesday 14 December 1993. The 30-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 1993
- Tuesday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58643, longitude -0.36156, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199301QA00792
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 2 October 1987.
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A404 in Harrow, 2 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198701QA00635
Slight
Nissan Leaf crash on the A404 in Harrow, 6 August 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010590741
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Harrow, 6 November 2015
10 m awayRef 201501QA19079
Slight
Volvo 460 crash on the A404 in Harrow, 9 August 1994
10 m awayRef 199401QA00478
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A404 in Harrow, 18 March 2010
10 m awayRef 201001QA10076
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A404 in Harrow, 26 May 2001
10 m awayRef 200101QA00400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, 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 199301QA00792 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 1993.