Serious A5199 crash in Harborough on 8 December 2012 at 06:40 involving a Mitsubishi Outlander
A Mitsubishi Outlander crashed on the A5199 in Harborough at 06:40 on Saturday 8 December 2012. The 44-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 06:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Outlander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46656, longitude -1.06635, in the LE17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012331206635
- 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
- 5199
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 208 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 April 2009.
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 22 April 2009
208 m awayRef 2009330902434
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 27 May 2004
220 m awayRef 2004330403912
Fatal
Ford KA crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 1 December 2003
238 m awayRef 2003330309395
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 25 February 2009
247 m awayRef 2009330901222
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 28 August 2003
249 m awayRef 2003330306581
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 4 June 2004
269 m awayRef 2004330404194
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Outlander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Outlander)
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 2012331206635 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.