C road crash in Hinckley and Bosworth LE9 on 16 April 1998 at 10:15 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth at 10:15 on Thursday 16 April 1998. The 26-year-old male driver of the other vehicle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 1998
- Thursday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62032, longitude -1.29345, in the LE9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998339802828
- 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
- 30 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, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 16 May 2018
81 m awayRef 2018331800914
Serious
Yamaha crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 3 May 1997
130 m awayRef 1997339703130
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 23 December 1982
158 m awayRef 19823382N0808
Slight
Kia Sedona crash on an unclassified road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 26 September 2022
204 m awayRef 2022332200807
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 8 August 1987
216 m awayRef 19873387N0508
Serious
Audi A6 crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 21 February 2002
225 m awayRef 2002330201549
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
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 1998339802828 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.