Serious C road crash in Charnwood LE7 on 9 December 2017 at 22:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Charnwood at 22:40 on Saturday 9 December 2017. A 60-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69432, longitude -1.16143, in the LE7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331701582
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 12 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 October 1984.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 13 October 1984
12 m awayRef 19843384E0928
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 8 November 1985
22 m awayRef 19853385E0879
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 20 May 1979
22 m awayRef 19793379E0375
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on a C road in Charnwood, 17 October 1995
22 m awayRef 1995339507255
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 8 May 1981
22 m awayRef 19813381E0341
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Charnwood, 6 December 2008
22 m awayRef 2008330808079
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017331701582 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.