A47 crash in Harborough on 7 August 2016 at 18:00 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A47 in Harborough at 18:00 on Sunday 7 August 2016. A 36-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Aygo, a 64-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Aygo and the 74-year-old female driver of the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2016
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Aygo and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61934, longitude -0.92284, in the LE7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Billesdon & Tilton, Harborough, LE7 9FN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331601318
- 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
- 47
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6047
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2015.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A47 in Harborough, 2 March 2015
4 m awayRef 2015331500311
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A47 in Harborough, 29 August 2003
5 m awayRef 2003330306705
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A47 in Harborough, 24 October 2002
5 m awayRef 2002330208317
Slight
Mini One crash on the B6047 in Harborough, 18 November 2009
5 m awayRef 2009330907168
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B6047 in Harborough, 13 June 2005
5 m awayRef 2005330504639
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A47 in Harborough, 6 November 2013
5 m awayRef 2013331302007
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016331601318 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.