Serious C road crash in Harrow HA3 on 14 July 1997 at 08:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 08:00 on Monday 14 July 1997. A 24-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Cavalier 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
- 14 Jul 1997
- Monday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60484, longitude -0.35339, in the HA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701QA00446
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Harrow, 30 September 2001
41 m awayRef 200101QA00756
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on a C road in Harrow, 28 January 2000
41 m awayRef 200001QA00095
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Harrow, 15 May 1987
45 m awayRef 198701QA00295
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on a C road in Harrow, 25 October 2013
45 m awayRef 201301QA10389
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on a C road in Harrow, 17 February 1992
50 m awayRef 199201QA00103
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harrow, 3 August 2009
54 m awayRef 200901QA10292
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 199701QA00446 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.