A426 crash in Harborough on 2 May 2016 at 20:24 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A426 in Harborough at 20:24 on Monday 2 May 2016. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2016
- Monday, 20:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45347, longitude -1.20046, in the LE17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lutterworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lutterworth East, Harborough, LE17 4FJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331600770
- 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
- 426
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 2004.
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A426 in Harborough, 14 October 2004
10 m awayRef 2004330407725
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the A426 in Harborough, 19 August 2022
11 m awayRef 2022332200682
Slight
Case IH crash on the A426 in Harborough, 14 August 2025
41 m awayRef 2025332500768
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A426 in Harborough, 19 January 1991
41 m awayRef 1991339100688
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A426 in Harborough, 23 June 2005
41 m awayRef 2005330504612
Slight
Lorry crash on the A426 in Harborough, 22 December 1988
41 m awayRef 19883388H0452
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016331600770 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 2016.