A5199 crash in Harborough on 4 December 2014 at 06:50 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A5199 in Harborough at 06:50 on Thursday 4 December 2014. The 45-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2014
- Thursday, 06:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43205, longitude -1.05571, 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
- 2014331405206
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 February 2005.
Serious
Car crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 19 February 2005
38 m awayRef 2005330501297
Slight
Car crash on the A50 in Harborough, 1 November 1985
57 m awayRef 19853385S1002
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A50 in Harborough, 3 March 1997
149 m awayRef 1997339701571
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A50 in Harborough, 10 January 1995
149 m awayRef 1995339500249
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 9 July 2006
159 m awayRef 2006330604867
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A5199 in Harborough, 27 November 2006
159 m awayRef 2006330608567
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2014331405206 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.