A1 crash in Rutland on 26 November 2015 at 17:00 involving a Volkswagen Caddy van
A Volkswagen Caddy van and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A1 in Rutland at 17:00 on Thursday 26 November 2015. The 29-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Caddy van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Nov 2015
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Caddy and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67196, longitude -0.52905, in the PE9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rutland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331505570
- Council area
- Rutland
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2002.
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A1 in Rutland, 11 June 2002
15 m awayRef 2002330204572
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1 in Rutland, 19 August 2012
16 m awayRef 2012331205763
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A1 in Rutland, 5 August 2003
27 m awayRef 2003330305945
Slight
Foden crash on the B1081 in Rutland, 18 May 2004
47 m awayRef 2004330403640
Slight
Car crash on the B1081 in Rutland, 27 August 1982
56 m awayRef 19823382E0691
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1 in Rutland, 12 February 2010
59 m awayRef 2010331000899
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Caddy
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
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
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Caddy)
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 2015331505570 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rutland road accident statistics for 2015.