Serious C road crash in Harrow HA7 on 31 May 1995 at 16:40 involving an Austin Metro van
An Austin Metro van and a Suzuki SJ were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 16:40 on Wednesday 31 May 1995. The 22-year-old male driver of the Austin Metro van was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 May 1995
- Wednesday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Austin Metro and Suzuki SJ
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60319, longitude -0.31287, 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
- 199501QA00327
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 21 January 2013.
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Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Harrow, 31 December 1997
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BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 25 April 1997
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Austin Metro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SJ
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 970 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Metro)
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 199501QA00327 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 1995.