A4303 crash in Harborough on 24 October 2013 at 04:06 involving a Toyota Carina
A Toyota Carina and a Nissan Almera were involved in a crash on the A4303 in Harborough at 04:06 on Thursday 24 October 2013. A 60-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Carina was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2013
- Thursday, 04:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Carina and Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45107, longitude -1.25304, in the LE17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lutterworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lutterworth West, Harborough, LE17 4JG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013331301970
- 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
- 4303
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 May 2008.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4303 in Harborough, 24 May 2008
5 m awayRef 2008330803414
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4303 in Harborough, 21 November 2003
5 m awayRef 2003330309276
Slight
Mercedes Gla Class crash on the A4303 in Harborough, 15 October 2019
5 m awayRef 2019331900957
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the A5 in Harborough, 20 June 2010
11 m awayRef 2010331003556
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4303 in Harborough, 7 January 2000
15 m awayRef 2000330000326
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Harborough, 16 July 1981
25 m awayRef 19813381S0642
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,184 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2013331301970 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 2013.