C road crash in Harrow HA8 on 27 October 1996 at 07:00 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova and an Austin Maestro van were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 07:00 on Sunday 27 October 1996. The 19-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Nova was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 1996
- Sunday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Nova and Austin Maestro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60548, longitude -0.27842, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199601QA00733
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Maestro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
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 199601QA00733 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.