C road crash in Harborough LE8 on 7 January 2002 at 08:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Harborough at 08:20 on Monday 7 January 2002. The 22-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 47-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jan 2002
- Monday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51609, longitude -1.06065, in the LE8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002330200211
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 1990.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Harborough, 25 January 1990
At the same spotRef 1990339000775
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Harborough, 30 March 2001
At the same spotRef 2001330102667
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harborough, 1 May 1991
At the same spotRef 1991339103112
Slight
Renault 5 crash on a C road in Harborough, 23 April 1993
At the same spotRef 1993339302770
Slight
Rover SD1 crash on a C road in Harborough, 20 March 1991
At the same spotRef 1991339102174
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in Harborough, 28 January 2005
At the same spotRef 2005330500693
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2002330200211 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 2002.