Serious C road crash in Harborough LE7 on 9 April 2012 at 19:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on a C road in Harborough at 19:00 on Monday 9 April 2012. The 21-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Apr 2012
- Monday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64212, longitude -0.86398, in the LE7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012331201966
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 2007.
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on a C road in Harborough, 15 February 2007
5 m awayRef 2007330701168
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Harborough, 30 March 1995
5 m awayRef 1995339502339
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Harborough, 6 December 2013
7 m awayRef 2013331302278
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Harborough, 17 April 2000
15 m awayRef 2000330002973
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on a C road in Harborough, 21 December 1990
18 m awayRef 1990339050045
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on a C road in Harborough, 17 October 2012
21 m awayRef 2012331206278
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2012331201966 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 2012.