A4304 crash in Harborough on 3 December 2017 at 19:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A4304 in Harborough at 19:30 on Sunday 3 December 2017. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2017
- Sunday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45611, longitude -1.045, in the LE17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331701542
- 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
- 4304
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 52 metres away, was a fatal crash on 8 September 1987.
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A427 in Harborough, 8 September 1987
52 m awayRef 19873387S0702
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A4304 in Harborough, 20 December 2000
52 m awayRef 2000330010155
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4304 in Harborough, 23 September 1996
56 m awayRef 1996339606919
Slight
Car crash on the A427 in Harborough, 11 January 1981
84 m awayRef 19813381S0047
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A427 in Harborough, 21 January 1995
129 m awayRef 1995339500553
Slight
Minibus crash on the A427 in Harborough, 2 January 1984
146 m awayRef 19843384S0002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2017331701542 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.