Unclassified road crash in Harborough LE9 on 2 November 2015 at 20:48 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on an unclassified road in Harborough at 20:48 on Monday 2 November 2015. The 28-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 2015
- Monday, 20:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53076, longitude -1.21897, in the LE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Broughton Astley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broughton Astley-Primethorpe & Sutton, Harborough, LE9 6HF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331501845
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2005.
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 21 January 2005
At the same spotRef 2005330500571
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B581 in Harborough, 23 March 1995
63 m awayRef 1995339502148
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B581 in Harborough, 30 March 2005
85 m awayRef 2005330502310
Slight
Car crash on the B581 in Harborough, 10 July 2007
89 m awayRef 2007330704757
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 16 May 1994
170 m awayRef 1994339403894
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the B581 in Harborough, 3 January 2006
171 m awayRef 2006330600002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
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 2015331501845 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 2015.