C road crash in Hinckley and Bosworth LE9 on 2 December 2016 at 18:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth at 18:30 on Friday 2 December 2016. The 46-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2016
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63653, longitude -1.2821, in the LE9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Hinckley and Bosworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331602009
- Council area
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- 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
- 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, no street lighting
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 28 April 2000
16 m awayRef 2000330003266
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 17 November 1987
28 m awayRef 19873387N0744
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 19 December 1984
31 m awayRef 19843384N0837
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 19 March 2024
41 m awayRef 2024332400252
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 15 July 2012
63 m awayRef 2012331205559
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 8 November 1998
87 m awayRef 1998339808622
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016331602009 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.