Serious B6047 crash in Harborough on 18 April 2025 at 12:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6047 in Harborough at 12:15 on Friday 18 April 2025. The 60-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 18 Apr 2025
- Friday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48098, longitude -0.92432, in the LE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Market Harborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Market Harborough-Logan, Harborough, LE16 9BP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025332500403
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6047
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 1979.
Slight
Scooter crash on the A6 in Harborough, 20 August 1979
10 m awayRef 19793379S0691
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6047 in Harborough, 1 November 2004
14 m awayRef 2004330408593
Slight
Mercedes SLK Class crash on the B6047 in Harborough, 22 June 2010
14 m awayRef 2010331003617
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the B6047 in Harborough, 16 January 2009
14 m awayRef 2009330900347
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B6047 in Harborough, 30 November 2008
28 m awayRef 2008330807837
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B6047 in Harborough, 28 May 2004
28 m awayRef 2004330403986
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 60, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025332500403 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.