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Unclassified road crash in Harborough LE7 on 21 December 1996 at 16:00 involving a BMW 5 Series

A BMW 5 Series and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harborough at 16:00 on Saturday 21 December 1996. The 38-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
21 Dec 1996
Saturday, 16:00
Vehicles
2
BMW 5 Series and Ford Escort
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6074, longitude -1.01943, in the LE7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Harborough

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1996339609771
Council area
Harborough
Police force
Leicestershire
Highway authority
Leicestershire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 August 1993.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Entered ditch
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years
    Engine capacity
    2,494 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    3 years

  • Vehicle 2: Ford Escort

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    41 years
    Engine capacity
    1,597 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)

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 1996339609771 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.