C road crash in Hinckley and Bosworth LE67 on 23 September 2017 at 23:35 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth at 23:35 on Saturday 23 September 2017. The 29-year-old male driver and a 23-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2017
- Saturday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65874, longitude -1.35063, in the LE67 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Hinckley and Bosworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331701360
- 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 February 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the B585 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 1 February 1987
11 m awayRef 19873387N0062
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B585 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 21 September 1988
11 m awayRef 19883388C0261
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 13 May 2005
18 m awayRef 2005330505913
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 6 November 2003
18 m awayRef 2003330308723
Fatal
Ford Ecosport crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 22 January 2024
72 m awayRef 2024332400073
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 2 February 2015
74 m awayRef 2015331500229
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2017331701360 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 2017.