Unclassified road crash in Harborough LE7 on 20 December 2001 at 08:50 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Harborough at 08:50 on Thursday 20 December 2001. An 11-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 20 Dec 2001
- Thursday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62544, longitude -0.99715, in the LE7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001330150877
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 1991.
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 1 March 1991
22 m awayRef 1991339101713
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 4 October 2004
28 m awayRef 2004330407370
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 27 September 1989
95 m awayRef 19893389S0338
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 9 November 1995
114 m awayRef 1995339507968
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 9 April 1987
120 m awayRef 19873387E0235
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 25 March 1983
149 m awayRef 19833383E0198
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2001330150877 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 2001.