A4140 crash in Harrow on 27 January 1997 at 17:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4140 in Harrow at 17:10 on Monday 27 January 1997. The 69-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jan 1997
- Monday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61007, longitude -0.30351, in the HA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701QA00068
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4140
- Road type
- Dual 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, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 February 2002.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 7 February 2002
41 m awayRef 200201QA00085
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 30 June 2003
41 m awayRef 200301QA00396
Slight
Car crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 19 January 2006
45 m awayRef 200601QA10085
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 28 April 1999
45 m awayRef 199901QA00313
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 7 June 2005
50 m awayRef 200501QA10207
Slight
Honda CBR crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 5 September 2023
51 m awayRef 2023010464257
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- 69 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 199701QA00068 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 1997.