B591 crash in North West Leicestershire on 21 November 1995 at 21:45 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the B591 in North West Leicestershire at 21:45 on Tuesday 21 November 1995. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 1995
- Tuesday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.71887, longitude -1.28224, in the LE12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North West Leicestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995339508378
- Council area
- North West Leicestershire
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 591
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B591 in North West Leicestershire, 6 April 1981
10 m awayRef 19813381N0183
Slight
Car crash on the B591 in North West Leicestershire, 3 May 1989
10 m awayRef 19893389C0130
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B591 in North West Leicestershire, 25 July 1995
10 m awayRef 1995339505199
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B591 in North West Leicestershire, 21 November 2007
10 m awayRef 2007330708145
Slight
Car crash on the B591 in North West Leicestershire, 12 October 1981
10 m awayRef 19813381N0617
Slight
Car crash on the B5350 in North West Leicestershire, 1 September 1988
10 m awayRef 19883388C0241
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 1995339508378 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North West Leicestershire road accident statistics for 1995.