A47 crash in Harborough on 22 December 1999 at 12:45 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A47 in Harborough at 12:45 on Wednesday 22 December 1999. An 11-year-old female passenger and the 41-year-old female driver were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1999
- Wednesday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62981, longitude -1.00414, in the LE7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999339910144
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 47
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 1995.
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Harborough, 31 July 1995
At the same spotRef 1995339505186
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A47 in Harborough, 5 October 1991
22 m awayRef 1991339107050
Serious
Car crash on the A47 in Harborough, 29 September 1989
40 m awayRef 19893389S0345
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A47 in Harborough, 23 March 2016
44 m awayRef 2016331600482
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A47 in Harborough, 8 July 1999
51 m awayRef 1999339905206
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A47 in Harborough, 28 December 1990
60 m awayRef 1990339050050
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 1999339910144 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.