A5 crash in Harborough on 19 December 2016 at 14:30 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion and a car were involved in a crash on the A5 in Harborough at 14:30 on Monday 19 December 2016. The 26-year-old female driver of the Ford Fusion was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2016
- Monday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fusion and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45066, longitude -1.25359, in the LE17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lutterworth West, Harborough, LE17 4JG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331602202
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4303
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 2006.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5 in Harborough, 9 November 2006
11 m awayRef 2006330608305
Slight
Scania crash on the A5 in Harborough, 7 June 2005
17 m awayRef 2005330504085
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A5 in Harborough, 20 October 2004
17 m awayRef 2004330407922
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A5 in Harborough, 28 June 1993
17 m awayRef 1993339304486
Fatal
Car crash on the A427 in Harborough, 5 June 1982
19 m awayRef 19823382S0415
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A5 in Harborough, 4 June 1994
19 m awayRef 1994339404299
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fusion)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016331602202 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.