C road crash in Charnwood LE7 on 21 February 2015 at 20:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on a C road in Charnwood at 20:00 on Saturday 21 February 2015. The 42-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 2015
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.70563, longitude -1.04824, in the LE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Queniborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wreake Valley, Charnwood, LE7 3DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331505061
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2020.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 12 October 2020
7 m awayRef 2020332000804
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 14 July 2005
27 m awayRef 2005330505199
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Charnwood, 28 August 1988
46 m awayRef 19883388S0307
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 24 April 1996
47 m awayRef 1996339603046
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Charnwood, 22 November 2006
76 m awayRef 2006330608468
Slight
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on a C road in Charnwood, 14 December 2005
85 m awayRef 2005330509867
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2015331505061 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.