Serious C road crash in Harborough LE7 on 13 November 1999 at 19:35 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A Land Rover Discovery crashed on a C road in Harborough at 19:35 on Saturday 13 November 1999. The 47-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Nov 1999
- Saturday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59338, longitude -0.84361, in the LE7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999339908969
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Discovery)
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 1999339908969 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.