Unclassified road crash in Harborough LE8 on 4 June 1996 at 15:55 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Toyota Tercel were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harborough at 15:55 on Tuesday 4 June 1996. A 14-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 1996
- Tuesday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Toyota Tercel
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57506, longitude -1.03343, in the LE8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Glen.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996339604132
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Tercel
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,452 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1996339604132 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 1996.