A426 crash in Harborough on 19 August 2022 at 14:45 involving a Mazda 3
A Mazda 3 and a Land Rover Range Rover Sport were involved in a crash on the A426 in Harborough at 14:45 on Friday 19 August 2022. The 27-year-old female driver of the Mazda 3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 2022
- Friday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 3 and Land Rover Range Rover Sport
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45359, longitude -1.20054, in the LE17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lutterworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lutterworth East, Harborough, LE17 4FJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022332200682
- 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
- 426
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2016.
Slight
Car crash on the A426 in Harborough, 2 May 2016
11 m awayRef 2016331600770
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A426 in Harborough, 14 October 2004
21 m awayRef 2004330407725
Slight
Case IH crash on the A426 in Harborough, 14 August 2025
30 m awayRef 2025332500768
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A426 in Harborough, 19 January 1991
30 m awayRef 1991339100688
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A426 in Harborough, 23 June 2005
30 m awayRef 2005330504612
Slight
Lorry crash on the A426 in Harborough, 22 December 1988
30 m awayRef 19883388H0452
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Sport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 3)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2022332200682 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 2022.