Serious C road crash in Charnwood LE12 on 22 July 2017 at 19:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on a C road in Charnwood at 19:00 on Saturday 22 July 2017. The 33-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jul 2017
- Saturday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77077, longitude -1.29147, in the LE12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shepshed. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shepshed East, Charnwood, LE12 9BN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331700897
- Council area
- Charnwood
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 December 2020.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 12 December 2020
11 m awayRef 2020332000966
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Charnwood, 8 February 2000
12 m awayRef 2000330001077
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Charnwood, 12 July 2016
17 m awayRef 2016331601186
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B588 in Charnwood, 22 September 1992
24 m awayRef 1992339206554
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 29 August 1995
24 m awayRef 1995339505819
Slight
Renault Megane crash on a C road in Charnwood, 16 October 2003
26 m awayRef 2003330307944
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017331700897 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.