Unclassified road crash in Harrow HA1 on 22 March 1998 at 16:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Harrow at 16:30 on Sunday 22 March 1998. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 1998
- Sunday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5785, longitude -0.35347, in the HA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801QA00187
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 18 December 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010QA0878
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 1 September 2001
32 m awayRef 200101QA00630
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 2 September 2003
45 m awayRef 200301QA00514
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 28 March 1998
45 m awayRef 199801QA00208
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 10 February 2007
76 m awayRef 200701QA10058
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 9 September 2008
120 m awayRef 200801QA10330
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199801QA00187 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 1998.