A47 crash in Harborough on 22 September 2011 at 18:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A47 in Harborough at 18:00 on Thursday 22 September 2011. The 11-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 2011
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63134, longitude -1.04755, in the LE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thurncourt, Leicester, LE5 2NH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011331105484
- 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
- 47
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 2023.
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the A47 in Harborough, 5 August 2023
At the same spotRef 2023332301083
Slight
Volkswagen Derby crash on the A47 in Harborough, 15 June 1992
At the same spotRef 1992339204006
Slight
LDV 200 Series crash on the A47 in Harborough, 18 August 2002
At the same spotRef 2002330206254
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A47 in Harborough, 9 June 1992
At the same spotRef 1992339203878
Serious
Car crash on the A47 in Harborough, 14 November 1979
At the same spotRef 19793379E0884
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Harborough, 9 December 1982
At the same spotRef 19823382E1122
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 11, on vehicle 2 (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 2011331105484 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 2011.