C road crash in Charnwood LE6 on 30 October 2014 at 06:36 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van crashed on a C road in Charnwood at 06:36 on Thursday 30 October 2014. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2014
- Thursday, 06:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69361, longitude -1.23333, in the LE6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014331402101
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 December 2012.
Serious
Mazda 2 crash on a C road in Charnwood, 5 December 2012
8 m awayRef 2012331206539
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 16 May 1988
35 m awayRef 19883388B0148
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Charnwood, 15 October 1993
35 m awayRef 1993339307297
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 27 June 1992
35 m awayRef 1992339204340
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Charnwood, 18 October 1989
44 m awayRef 19893389B0373
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 20 June 2001
50 m awayRef 2001330104971
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- 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
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
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 2014331402101 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 2014.