A4303 crash in Harborough on 6 August 2014 at 20:05 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on the A4303 in Harborough at 20:05 on Wednesday 6 August 2014. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 2014
- Wednesday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45278, longitude -1.22446, in the LE17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014331401506
- 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
- 60 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2013.
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Jaguar X Type crash on the A4303 in Harborough, 16 October 2013
11 m awayRef 2013331301896
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A4303 in Harborough, 8 June 2010
21 m awayRef 2010331003294
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Car crash on the A4303 in Harborough, 5 June 2020
25 m awayRef 2020332000293
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Volvo crash on the A4303 in Harborough, 23 July 2006
30 m awayRef 2006330605244
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Mercedes C Class crash on the A4303 in Harborough, 8 April 2023
35 m awayRef 2023332300253
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Peugeot 206 crash on the A4303 in Harborough, 27 October 2013
36 m awayRef 2013331301978
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
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 2014331401506 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 2014.