Unclassified road crash in Hinckley and Bosworth LE6 on 9 April 1998 at 15:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in Hinckley and Bosworth at 15:00 on Thursday 9 April 1998. The 65-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 1998
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6585, longitude -1.23163, in the LE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Groby.
Map of where the crash happened in Hinckley and Bosworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998339802703
- Council area
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 10 February 2014
30 m awayRef 2014331400276
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 22 October 1987
51 m awayRef 19873387E0879
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 6 November 2015
54 m awayRef 2015331501896
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 6 June 2001
58 m awayRef 2001330104486
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 23 March 1979
61 m awayRef 19793379E0220
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 22 November 2004
61 m awayRef 2004330408951
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 1998339802703 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 1998.