Serious B4669 crash in Hinckley and Bosworth on 23 December 2015 at 05:00 involving a Jaguar X Type
A Jaguar X Type crashed on the B4669 in Hinckley and Bosworth at 05:00 on Wednesday 23 December 2015. The 27-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 2015
- Wednesday, 05:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jaguar X Type
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53876, longitude -1.33215, in the LE10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fosse Highcross, Blaby, LE9 4JZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hinckley and Bosworth
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331502137
- 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
- 4669
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2008.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the B4669 in Blaby, 21 August 2008
8 m awayRef 2008330805368
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4669 in Blaby, 4 September 1996
8 m awayRef 1996339606631
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B4669 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 21 October 2015
8 m awayRef 2015331501767
Slight
Hyundai Amica crash on the B4669 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 18 May 2016
14 m awayRef 2016331600807
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4669 in Blaby, 13 November 2015
14 m awayRef 2015331501880
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4669 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 24 October 2015
16 m awayRef 2015331501740
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar X Type)
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 2015331502137 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 2015.