C road crash in Harborough LE9 on 4 December 2017 at 07:22 involving a Ford Kuga
A Ford Kuga and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on a C road in Harborough at 07:22 on Monday 4 December 2017. The 82-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 307 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2017
- Monday, 07:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Kuga and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52361, longitude -1.23605, in the LE9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331701727
- 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
- 60 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
- C
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
- 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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 1982.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harborough, 6 February 1982
15 m awayRef 19823382S0079
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Harborough, 21 June 2019
19 m awayRef 2019331901249
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harborough, 31 January 1984
23 m awayRef 19843384S0115
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Harborough, 16 April 1981
23 m awayRef 19813381S0366
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on a C road in Harborough, 29 August 1994
29 m awayRef 1994339406455
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harborough, 16 April 2018
74 m awayRef 2018331800467
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
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 2017331701727 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.