Serious A312 crash in Harrow on 15 January 2002 at 18:29 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A312 in Harrow at 18:29 on Tuesday 15 January 2002. The 49-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 2002
- Tuesday, 18:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57016, longitude -0.3464, in the HA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harrow on the Hill, Harrow, HA2 0PJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201QA00034
- Council area
- Harrow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 312
- 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 31 July 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A312 in Harrow, 31 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198601QA00517
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A312 in Harrow, 1 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199701QA00728
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A312 in Harrow, 6 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201501QA10014
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A312 in Harrow, 1 July 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010385893
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A312 in Harrow, 20 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198701QA00446
Slight
Car crash on the A312 in Harrow, 13 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198501QA00274
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 200201QA00034 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 2002.