A4090 crash in Harrow on 26 January 1996 at 13:20 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a car were involved in a crash on the A4090 in Harrow at 13:20 on Friday 26 January 1996. A 44-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Cavalier and a 28-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 1996
- Friday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58527, longitude -0.36174, 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
- 199601QA00069
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4090
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 1998.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 21 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199801QA00198
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 8 November 2014
At the same spotRef 201401QA10534
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 20 May 2016
At the same spotRef 201601QA10219
Slight
Triumph Spitfire crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 26 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501QA00189
Serious
Car crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 23 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198501QA00775
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A4090 in Harrow, 6 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00448
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199601QA00069 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 1996.