B581 crash in Harborough on 26 February 2009 at 16:20 involving a Skoda Octavia taxi
A bicycle and a Skoda Octavia taxi were involved in a crash on the B581 in Harborough at 16:20 on Thursday 26 February 2009. The 14-year-old male cyclist 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
- 26 Feb 2009
- Thursday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52395, longitude -1.21378, in the LE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Broughton Astley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009330901307
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 581
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 2013.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B581 in Harborough, 5 February 2013
5 m awayRef 2013331300177
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B581 in Harborough, 28 July 2001
10 m awayRef 2001330105841
Slight
Suzuki Samurai crash on the B581 in Harborough, 21 February 1999
14 m awayRef 1999339901459
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B581 in Harborough, 8 September 2009
22 m awayRef 2009330905330
Slight
Car crash on the B581 in Harborough, 2 January 2015
27 m awayRef 2015331500012
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B581 in Harborough, 28 February 2007
32 m awayRef 2007330701516
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2009330901307 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 2009.