M1 crash in Harborough on 9 January 2002 at 20:10 involving a Fiat Brava
A Fiat Brava and a car were involved in a crash on the M1 in Harborough at 20:10 on Wednesday 9 January 2002. The 23-year-old female driver of the Fiat Brava was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 2002
- Wednesday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Brava and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48785, longitude -1.19204, in the LE17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ullesthorpe, Harborough, LE17 4LU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002330200271
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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 1 June 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the M1 in Harborough, 1 June 1986
At the same spotRef 19863386S0544
Slight
Volvo crash on the M1 in Harborough, 26 November 2004
At the same spotRef 2004330409173
Serious
Car crash on the M1 in Harborough, 23 May 1981
At the same spotRef 19813381S0490
Slight
Car crash on the M1 in Harborough, 21 April 1990
At the same spotRef 1990339003031
Fatal
Volvo crash on the M1 in Harborough, 20 December 2016
25 m awayRef 2016331602075
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M1 in Harborough, 29 December 2011
92 m awayRef 2011331107412
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Brava
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Brava)
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 2002330200271 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.