C road crash in Harborough LE16 on 17 November 2017 at 16:49 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on a C road in Harborough at 16:49 on Friday 17 November 2017. A 5-year-old male passenger in the Ford Mondeo and the 90-year-old male driver of the Nissan Micra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2017
- Friday, 16:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47275, longitude -0.93049, in the LE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Market Harborough.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331701481
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Harborough, 20 February 2007
8 m awayRef 2007330701362
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4036 in Harborough, 14 April 1982
54 m awayRef 19823382S0279
Slight
Vauxhall Antara crash on a C road in Harborough, 19 January 2024
64 m awayRef 2024332400060
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Harborough, 1 August 1995
74 m awayRef 1995339505183
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Harborough, 3 June 2015
89 m awayRef 2015331500882
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on a C road in Harborough, 5 June 2010
94 m awayRef 2010331003337
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- 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
- 90 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 90, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
- 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 2017331701481 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 2017.