A50 crash in Harborough on 15 February 1992 at 16:30 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the A50 in Harborough at 16:30 on Saturday 15 February 1992. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 1992
- Saturday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53479, longitude -1.09078, in the LE8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992339201210
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 50
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 10 February 1998.
Fatal
Peugeot 205 crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 10 February 1998
10 m awayRef 1998339801082
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A50 in Harborough, 25 July 1991
10 m awayRef 1991339105215
Serious
Alfa Romeo 33 crash on the A50 in Harborough, 15 April 1994
32 m awayRef 1994339402956
Slight
Car crash on the A50 in Harborough, 3 January 1987
51 m awayRef 19873387S0001
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 13 February 2013
96 m awayRef 2013331300233
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 14 August 2014
120 m awayRef 2014331401476
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 1992339201210 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 1992.