C road crash in Harborough LE16 on 7 August 1979 at 20:20 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Harborough at 20:20 on Tuesday 7 August 1979. The 43-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 1979
- Tuesday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49673, longitude -0.97711, in the LE16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19793379S0634
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 1979.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Harborough, 12 August 1979
At the same spotRef 19793379S0659
Serious
Yamaha Tracer crash on a C road in Harborough, 11 July 2025
7 m awayRef 2025332500658
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harborough, 14 August 1989
10 m awayRef 19893389H0249
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harborough, 12 July 1988
10 m awayRef 19883388H0231
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harborough, 6 January 2014
11 m awayRef 2014331400505
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Harborough, 24 April 1988
20 m awayRef 19883388H0137
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19793379S0634 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harborough road accident statistics for 1979.