C road crash in Charnwood LE12 on 11 December 2011 at 01:48 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on a C road in Charnwood at 01:48 on Sunday 11 December 2011. A male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2011
- Sunday, 01:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.73174, longitude -1.23196, in the LE12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011331107066
- Council area
- Charnwood
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 June 1993.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 8 June 1993
14 m awayRef 1993339304061
Serious
Vauxhall Astramax crash on a C road in Charnwood, 27 August 1994
175 m awayRef 1994339406470
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Charnwood, 7 April 2004
345 m awayRef 2004330402653
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on a C road in Charnwood, 23 July 2004
381 m awayRef 2004330405540
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 15 October 1987
389 m awayRef 19873387N0671
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Charnwood, 16 May 1999
398 m awayRef 1999339903780
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2011331107066 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Charnwood road accident statistics for 2011.