A404 crash in Harrow on 24 February 1997 at 10:00 involving a Datsun Cherry
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 1997
- Monday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Datsun Cherry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59028, longitude -0.37975, in the HA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701QA00139
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- 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 8 September 1995.
Serious
MCW crash on the A404 in Harrow, 8 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199501QA00564
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A404 in Harrow, 2 November 2000
10 m awayRef 200001QA00674
Slight
Bus crash on the A404 in Harrow, 1 May 1996
10 m awayRef 199601QA00276
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 8 December 2017
14 m awayRef 2017010076489
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the A404 in Harrow, 17 October 2025
30 m awayRef 2025010604785
Serious
Van crash on the A404 in Harrow, 5 December 1985
36 m awayRef 198501QA00813
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Datsun Cherry
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,270 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Datsun Cherry)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199701QA00139 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.