Serious C road crash in Harborough LE8 on 21 March 2025 at 15:24 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on a C road in Harborough at 15:24 on Friday 21 March 2025. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Mar 2025
- Friday, 15:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57488, longitude -1.03314, in the LE8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Glen.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025332500270
- 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
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 1984.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harborough, 2 December 1984
20 m awayRef 19843384S1177
Slight
Kawasaki AR50 crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 23 April 1994
20 m awayRef 1994339403216
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Harborough, 3 June 1995
20 m awayRef 1995339503761
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Harborough, 22 February 1980
20 m awayRef 19803380S0148
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 4 June 1996
28 m awayRef 1996339604132
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Harborough, 1 November 1994
30 m awayRef 1994339408350
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025332500270 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 2025.