C road crash in Harborough LE8 on 15 January 1997 at 11:50 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on a C road in Harborough at 11:50 on Wednesday 15 January 1997. The 33-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 1997
- Wednesday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53595, longitude -1.0225, in the LE8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997339700448
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 March 1991.
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harborough, 20 March 1991
61 m awayRef 1991339102198
Slight
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86 m awayRef 2001330110048
Serious
Lorry crash on a C road in Harborough, 6 August 1984
86 m awayRef 19843384S0716
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on a C road in Harborough, 10 March 2008
122 m awayRef 2008330801673
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Harborough, 4 November 2000
122 m awayRef 2000330008472
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Harborough, 15 December 2017
143 m awayRef 2017331701718
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, 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 1997339700448 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 1997.