B457 crash in Harrow on 15 July 1998 at 08:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford Escort van were involved in a crash on the B457 in Harrow at 08:00 on Wednesday 15 July 1998. The 33-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier 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
- 15 Jul 1998
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57481, longitude -0.33427, 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
- 199801QA00492
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 457
- 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 5 January 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B457 in Harrow, 5 January 2003
10 m awayRef 200301QA00024
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B457 in Harrow, 15 December 1995
10 m awayRef 199501QA00823
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B457 in Harrow, 9 February 1999
10 m awayRef 199901QA00087
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B457 in Harrow, 3 April 2001
10 m awayRef 200101QA00330
Slight
Bedford crash on the A4005 in Harrow, 10 May 1990
10 m awayRef 199001QA00373
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B457 in Harrow, 2 July 2004
10 m awayRef 200401QA00315
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199801QA00492 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.