A47 crash in Rutland on 28 February 1998 at 18:40 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a car were involved in a crash on the A47 in Rutland at 18:40 on Saturday 28 February 1998. The 24-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Feb 1998
- Saturday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59539, longitude -0.71306, in the LE15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rutland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998339801563
- Council area
- Rutland
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 47
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 October 2025.
Serious
Toyota Auris crash on the A47 in Rutland, 17 October 2025
10 m awayRef 2025332500995
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A47 in Rutland, 22 February 2019
59 m awayRef 2019331900115
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A47 in Rutland, 18 April 2004
279 m awayRef 2004330402832
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A47 in Rutland, 15 August 1998
332 m awayRef 1998339806063
Serious
Jaguar X Type crash on the A47 in Rutland, 18 May 2014
372 m awayRef 2014331400894
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A47 in Rutland, 7 March 2016
380 m awayRef 2016331600374
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 1998339801563 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rutland road accident statistics for 1998.