C road crash in Charnwood LE7 on 21 January 2012 at 18:17 involving a Toyota Yaris
A car and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on a C road in Charnwood at 18:17 on Saturday 21 January 2012. The 22-year-old male driver of the car 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
- 21 Jan 2012
- Saturday, 18:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.7147, longitude -1.01709, in the LE7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012331200396
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Charnwood, 14 June 2013
10 m awayRef 2013331300928
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Charnwood, 17 September 1996
15 m awayRef 1996339606799
Slight
Car crash on the B674 in Charnwood, 22 December 1988
87 m awayRef 19883388S0495
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Charnwood, 5 December 2007
97 m awayRef 2007330708592
Serious
Car crash on the B674 in Charnwood, 5 July 1981
107 m awayRef 19813381E0529
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the B674 in Charnwood, 5 October 1993
107 m awayRef 1993339306946
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2012331200396 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 2012.