C road crash in Leicester LE2 on 24 February 1999 at 07:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Leicester at 07:40 on Wednesday 24 February 1999. The 26-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 1999
- Wednesday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6079, longitude -1.12131, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999339901448
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5199
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Leicester, 22 July 1999
At the same spotRef 1999339905544
Slight
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Leicester, 29 September 2012
5 m awayRef 2012331206795
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A5199 in Leicester, 5 April 2002
10 m awayRef 2002330202656
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Leicester, 30 March 1998
10 m awayRef 1998339802414
Slight
Car crash on the A5199 in Leicester, 30 May 2011
10 m awayRef 2011331102921
Slight
Car crash on the A50 in Leicester, 7 October 1979
10 m awayRef 19793379S0882
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1999339901448 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Leicester road accident statistics for 1999.