A606 crash in Rutland on 9 February 2012 at 21:38 involving a Rover Cityrover
A Rover Cityrover and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A606 in Rutland at 21:38 on Thursday 9 February 2012. The 22-year-old male driver of the Rover Cityrover was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 2012
- Thursday, 21:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Cityrover and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.70193, longitude -0.78865, 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
- 2012331200759
- Council area
- Rutland
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 606
- 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
- Carriageway hazards
- Involvement with previous collision
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 69 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 1992.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A606 in Rutland, 9 January 1992
69 m awayRef 1992339200206
Serious
Car crash on the A606 in Rutland, 21 January 1979
139 m awayRef 19793379E0058
Serious
Car crash on the A606 in Rutland, 2 November 1984
153 m awayRef 19843384E1001
Slight
Van crash on the A606 in Rutland, 14 May 1983
167 m awayRef 19833383E0336
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A606 in Rutland, 22 January 2023
174 m awayRef 2023332300068
Slight
Taxi crash on the A606 in Rutland, 5 December 1987
197 m awayRef 19873387E1028
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Cityrover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,405 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Cityrover)
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 2012331200759 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 2012.