C road crash in Harrow HA3 on 26 May 1996 at 21:08 involving a Fiat Cinquecento
A Fiat Cinquecento and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 21:08 on Sunday 26 May 1996. The 22-year-old female driver of the Fiat Cinquecento was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 1996
- Sunday, 21:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Cinquecento and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60222, longitude -0.35218, 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
- 199601QA00347
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 11 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198801QA00327
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10 m awayRef 201101QA10049
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 16 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198501QA00445
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Harrow, 21 March 2025
15 m awayRef 2025010565133
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 27 September 1989
20 m awayRef 198901QA00712
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harrow, 4 April 2000
20 m awayRef 200001QA00238
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Cinquecento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Cinquecento)
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 199601QA00347 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.