B577 crash in Harborough on 29 June 1999 at 17:40 involving a BMW 7 Series
A BMW 7 Series and a Honda NS125R motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B577 in Harborough at 17:40 on Tuesday 29 June 1999. The 20-year-old male rider of the Honda NS125R motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jun 1999
- Tuesday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 7 Series and Honda NS125R
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48781, longitude -1.26994, in the LE17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999339905006
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 577
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 1996.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B577 in Harborough, 25 October 1996
42 m awayRef 1996339608004
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B577 in Harborough, 22 July 1991
121 m awayRef 1991339105145
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B577 in Harborough, 28 September 1996
279 m awayRef 1996339607107
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B577 in Harborough, 25 September 1980
335 m awayRef 19803380S0825
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B577 in Harborough, 13 November 1981
351 m awayRef 19813381S1078
Slight
Car crash on the B577 in Harborough, 26 June 1984
352 m awayRef 19843384S0571
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 7 Series
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,430 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Honda NS125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda NS125R)
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 1999339905006 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 1999.