B4116 crash in Hinckley and Bosworth on 26 October 2012 at 21:38 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 crashed on the B4116 in Hinckley and Bosworth at 21:38 on Friday 26 October 2012. The 48-year-old male driver 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
- 26 Oct 2012
- Friday, 21:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6267, longitude -1.51325, in the CV9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Hinckley and Bosworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012331206228
- Council area
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4116
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 222 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 July 2021.
Serious
Car crash on the B4116 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 26 July 2021
222 m awayRef 2021332100576
Slight
Car crash on the B4116 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 22 June 1989
286 m awayRef 19893389C0190
Slight
Car crash on the B4116 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 11 October 2006
388 m awayRef 2006330607315
Serious
Peugeot 107 crash on the B6416 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 28 July 2025
395 m awayRef 2025332500707
Slight
Car crash on the B4116 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 8 September 1983
700 m awayRef 19833383N0588
Serious
Car crash on the B4116 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 31 May 1983
730 m awayRef 19833383N0349
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
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 2012331206228 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 2012.