C road crash in Hinckley and Bosworth LE9 on 23 August 1997 at 16:25 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth at 16:25 on Saturday 23 August 1997. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 1997
- Saturday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6376, longitude -1.28238, in the LE9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997339706039
- Council area
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1989.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 27 January 1989
At the same spotRef 19893389C0033
Serious
Ford Granada crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 16 December 1997
10 m awayRef 1997339709690
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 20 December 2004
14 m awayRef 2004330410222
Slight
Audi Coupe crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 19 December 1994
20 m awayRef 1994339409845
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 8 November 1998
32 m awayRef 1998339808622
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 11 February 2000
32 m awayRef 2000330001210
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,608 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 1997339706039 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hinckley and Bosworth road accident statistics for 1997.