Serious unclassified road crash in Charnwood LE7 on 21 June 2017 at 20:29 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Charnwood at 20:29 on Wednesday 21 June 2017. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jun 2017
- Wednesday, 20:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67309, longitude -1.18766, in the LE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Anstey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Anstey, Charnwood, LE7 7BS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331700720
- Council area
- Charnwood
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2012.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 5 December 2012
13 m awayRef 2012331206543
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 15 June 1983
14 m awayRef 19833383E0440
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 6 January 1995
20 m awayRef 1995339500068
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 8 February 1993
40 m awayRef 1993339300996
Slight
Leyland Cars Princess crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 8 October 1992
42 m awayRef 1992339207021
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 28 March 2012
47 m awayRef 2012331201701
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2017331700720 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 2017.