Serious C road crash in Harrow HA7 on 24 April 1998 at 17:40 involving a Mazda 626
A Mazda 626 hit a pedestrian on a C road in Harrow at 17:40 on Friday 24 April 1998. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Apr 1998
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 626
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5984, longitude -0.30525, in the HA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801QA00273
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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 24 November 1992.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 24 November 1992
10 m awayRef 199201QA00740
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harrow, 26 February 1985
20 m awayRef 198501QA00097
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on a C road in Harrow, 4 March 2016
22 m awayRef 201601QA10136
Serious
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Harrow, 9 November 2010
32 m awayRef 201001QA10438
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Harrow, 6 January 1995
45 m awayRef 199501QA00016
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Harrow, 10 January 2022
46 m awayRef 2022010353964
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 626
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 626)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199801QA00273 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.