Serious B461 crash in Harrow on 1 September 1996 at 19:12 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra, a Ford and an Audi Coupe were involved in a crash on the B461 in Harrow at 19:12 on Sunday 1 September 1996. The 55-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Sep 1996
- Sunday, 19:12
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Sierra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60873, longitude -0.28551, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199601QA00563
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 461
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 March 1992.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B461 in Harrow, 19 March 1992
10 m awayRef 199201QA00165
Serious
Car crash on the B461 in Harrow, 29 October 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010QA0746
Slight
Audi Q7 crash on the B461 in Harrow, 11 April 2021
11 m awayRef 2021010301088
Serious
Honda CBR600F crash on the B461 in Harrow, 29 May 2005
20 m awayRef 200501QA10201
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B461 in Harrow, 20 July 2015
22 m awayRef 201501QA10284
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B461 in Harrow, 29 July 1999
40 m awayRef 199901QA00495
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Audi Coupe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 199601QA00563 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.