A4140 crash in Harrow on 3 September 1997 at 17:35 involving a Kawasaki KLE500 motorcycle
A Kawasaki KLE500 motorcycle and a Nissan Sunny were involved in a crash on the A4140 in Harrow at 17:35 on Wednesday 3 September 1997. The 30-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki KLE500 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Sep 1997
- Wednesday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki KLE500 and Nissan Sunny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59333, longitude -0.29028, 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
- 199701QA00564
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4140
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 2 September 2018.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 2 September 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010130260
Serious
Car crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 10 June 2011
At the same spotRef 201101TB01050
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 30 August 2003
At the same spotRef 200301QK00881
Slight
Bus crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 27 March 1991
10 m awayRef 199101QA00189
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 7 July 2010
10 m awayRef 201001QK50413
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 8 December 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010076590
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki KLE500
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,270 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki KLE500)
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 199701QA00564 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.