B581 crash in Harborough on 17 April 1994 at 14:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B581 in Harborough at 14:25 on Sunday 17 April 1994. A 21-year-old male passenger 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
- 17 Apr 1994
- Sunday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54011, longitude -1.24741, in the LE9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994339403053
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 581
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 April 1992.
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the B581 in Harborough, 12 April 1992
22 m awayRef 1992339202518
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B581 in Harborough, 10 November 2001
85 m awayRef 2001330108871
Slight
Foden crash on the B581 in Harborough, 9 March 1998
130 m awayRef 1998339801783
Slight
Toyota Starlet crash on the B581 in Harborough, 3 April 1992
134 m awayRef 1992339202363
Slight
Car crash on the B4114 in Blaby, 23 December 2020
139 m awayRef 2020332000995
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4114 in Blaby, 24 May 2014
139 m awayRef 2014331400913
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 1994339403053 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 1994.