C road crash in Harrow HA3 on 26 April 1997 at 16:10 involving a Renault 21
A Renault 21 and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 16:10 on Saturday 26 April 1997. A 27-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 1997
- Saturday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault 21 and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60103, longitude -0.3193, 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
- 199701QA00292
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 1993.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Harrow, 9 January 1993
At the same spotRef 199301QA00025
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Harrow, 30 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010QA0298
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on a C road in Harrow, 4 March 1992
At the same spotRef 199201QA00132
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 8 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198701QA00277
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Harrow, 11 September 2007
10 m awayRef 200701QA10221
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 20 January 2005
10 m awayRef 200501QA00079
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault 21
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199701QA00292 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.