C road crash in Harrow HA1 on 18 July 1998 at 19:10 involving a Mercedes minibus
A Mercedes minibus and a Mazda 626 were involved in a crash on a C road in Harrow at 19:10 on Saturday 18 July 1998. A 70-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes minibus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 1998
- Saturday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Mazda 626
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58047, longitude -0.3407, 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
- 199801QA00486
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- C
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
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 1996.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Mazda 626
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 199801QA00486 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.