Serious A4304 crash in Harborough on 12 January 2020 at 03:16 involving a Land Rover Range Rover
A Land Rover Range Rover crashed on the A4304 in Harborough at 03:16 on Sunday 12 January 2020. The 53-year-old male driver and a 60-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jan 2020
- Sunday, 03:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Range Rover
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44713, longitude -1.08854, in the LE17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020332000015
- 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
- 30 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 January 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A427 in Harborough, 5 January 1989
38 m awayRef 19893389H0004
Serious
Car crash on the A427 in Harborough, 11 August 1985
57 m awayRef 19853385S0681
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A427 in Harborough, 18 November 1983
67 m awayRef 19833383S1020
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A4304 in Harborough, 8 January 2019
84 m awayRef 2019331900062
Slight
Van crash on the A427 in Harborough, 10 February 1986
106 m awayRef 19863386S0130
Serious
Iveco crash on the A427 in Harborough, 11 February 1991
115 m awayRef 1991339101268
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,367 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Range Rover)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Range Rover)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2020332000015 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 2020.