B578 crash in Hinckley and Bosworth on 11 June 2016 at 17:10 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane crashed on the B578 in Hinckley and Bosworth at 17:10 on Saturday 11 June 2016. The 36-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jun 2016
- Saturday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51886, longitude -1.3389, in the LE10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Hinckley and Bosworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331601005
- 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
- 578
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 2020.
Slight
Car crash on the B578 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 30 October 2020
45 m awayRef 2020332001172
Serious
Car crash on the B578 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 22 April 1988
67 m awayRef 19883388H0141
Slight
Isuzu Trooper crash on the B578 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 12 November 1998
77 m awayRef 1998339808717
Slight
Car crash on the B578 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 24 November 1983
77 m awayRef 19833383S1052
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B578 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 25 March 1997
126 m awayRef 1997339702097
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the B598 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 27 January 2001
139 m awayRef 2001330100893
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 2016331601005 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 2016.