A4140 crash in Harrow on 11 November 1997 at 18:10 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A4140 in Harrow at 18:10 on Tuesday 11 November 1997. The 30-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Nov 1997
- Tuesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59128, longitude -0.28516, in the NW9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701QA00787
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4140
- Road type
- Single 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2018.
Slight
Lexus NX300 crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 6 May 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010106263
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 4 January 2012
At the same spotRef 201201QA10008
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 2 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501QA00128
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 5 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200101QA00245
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 19 April 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00077
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A4140 in Harrow, 15 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199401QA00799
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 79 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 199701QA00787 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.