A5199 crash in Harborough on 26 December 2012 at 14:06 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A5199 in Harborough at 14:06 on Wednesday 26 December 2012. The 21-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf, a 25-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 206 and a 3-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 206 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 14:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53037, longitude -1.09234, in the LE8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012331206757
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 2003.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 24 August 2003
At the same spotRef 2003330306741
Slight
Car crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 30 September 2020
10 m awayRef 2020332000765
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 16 May 2005
30 m awayRef 2005330503455
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 11 December 2011
30 m awayRef 2011331106999
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 21 February 2003
30 m awayRef 2003330301639
Slight
Car crash on the A50 in Charnwood, 26 July 1980
30 m awayRef 19803380S0610
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2012331206757 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.