Unclassified road crash in Charnwood LE12 on 19 July 2017 at 23:21 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Charnwood at 23:21 on Wednesday 19 July 2017. An 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 2017
- Wednesday, 23:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.75087, longitude -1.14516, in the LE12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barrow upon Soar. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barrow upon Soar, Charnwood, LE12 8LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331700880
- Council area
- Charnwood
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 82 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2015.
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 31 August 2015
82 m awayRef 2015331501350
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 9 July 1993
90 m awayRef 1993339304797
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 3 March 2006
120 m awayRef 2006330601543
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 5 December 2001
133 m awayRef 2001330109678
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Charnwood, 3 May 1981
142 m awayRef 19813381N0226
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Charnwood, 12 September 1998
142 m awayRef 1998339806829
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2017331700880 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.