Serious unclassified road crash in Harborough LE7 on 22 September 1981 at 15:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Harborough at 15:50 on Tuesday 22 September 1981. An 11-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Sep 1981
- Tuesday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62362, longitude -1.00223, in the LE7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19813381E0737
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 27 November 1986
14 m awayRef 19863386E1030
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 26 April 1990
14 m awayRef 1990339003284
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 20 November 1988
58 m awayRef 19883388S0433
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 5 February 1979
122 m awayRef 19793379E0088
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 2 September 2018
136 m awayRef 2018331800972
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 13 December 1991
141 m awayRef 1991339109178
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 19813381E0737 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 1981.