Unclassified road crash in Charnwood LE12 on 4 October 2015 at 04:44 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Charnwood at 04:44 on Sunday 4 October 2015. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 2015
- Sunday, 04:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.72101, longitude -1.14353, in the LE12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mountsorrel.
Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331502168
- Council area
- Charnwood
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 December 1997.
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 26 June 1994
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 22 June 1997
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 5 July 1991
80 m awayRef 1991339104704
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 21 April 1987
92 m awayRef 19873387N0232
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 24 May 1987
98 m awayRef 19873387N0315
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2015331502168 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 2015.