A6 crash in Harborough on 22 December 2000 at 15:20 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A6 in Harborough at 15:20 on Friday 22 December 2000. A 46-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta and the 32-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 306 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2000
- Friday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56421, longitude -1.01832, in the LE8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000330010210
- 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
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6 in Harborough, 27 August 1992
At the same spotRef 1992339205797
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A6 in Harborough, 28 December 1998
At the same spotRef 1998339810290
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6 in Harborough, 1 March 1995
At the same spotRef 1995339501601
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on a C road in Harborough, 16 December 2009
10 m awayRef 2009330907754
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6 in Harborough, 22 March 1992
10 m awayRef 1992339201959
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Harborough, 22 October 1987
10 m awayRef 19873387S0873
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 2000330010210 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.