A426 crash in Harborough on 8 April 2000 at 16:45 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the A426 in Harborough at 16:45 on Saturday 8 April 2000. A 21-year-old female passenger in the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2000
- Saturday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45392, longitude -1.2006, in the LE17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lutterworth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000330002987
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 426
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 1988.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A426 in Harborough, 22 December 1988
10 m awayRef 19883388H0452
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A426 in Harborough, 19 January 1991
10 m awayRef 1991339100688
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A426 in Harborough, 23 June 2005
10 m awayRef 2005330504612
Slight
Case IH crash on the A426 in Harborough, 14 August 2025
10 m awayRef 2025332500768
Slight
Van crash on the A426 in Harborough, 29 September 2008
14 m awayRef 2008330806534
Serious
Car crash on the A426 in Harborough, 7 December 1983
22 m awayRef 19833383S1126
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2000330002987 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 2000.