C road crash in North West Leicestershire LE67 on 23 December 2016 at 00:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on a C road in North West Leicestershire at 00:30 on Friday 23 December 2016. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2016
- Friday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69739, longitude -1.39297, in the LE67 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ibstock.
Map of where the crash happened in North West Leicestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331602237
- Council area
- North West Leicestershire
- 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
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 February 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B591 in North West Leicestershire, 27 February 1981
11 m awayRef 19813381N0112
Serious
Car crash on the B591 in North West Leicestershire, 10 September 1989
11 m awayRef 19893389C0283
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in North West Leicestershire, 21 December 1996
21 m awayRef 1996339609831
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B591 in North West Leicestershire, 14 March 1992
21 m awayRef 1992339201793
Serious
Car crash on the B591 in North West Leicestershire, 6 August 1987
25 m awayRef 19873387N0488
Slight
Car crash on the B591 in North West Leicestershire, 12 May 1985
25 m awayRef 19853385N0264
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2016331602237 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North West Leicestershire road accident statistics for 2016.