Unclassified road crash in Leicester LE3 on 30 August 2001 at 12:05 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Leicester at 12:05 on Thursday 30 August 2001. A 66-year-old female passenger in the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2001
- Thursday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65262, longitude -1.17658, in the LE3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Western, Leicester, LE3 9PF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001330106770
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 50
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 1991.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A50 in Leicester, 5 September 1991
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A50 in Leicester, 31 January 2001
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London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on the A50 in Leicester, 23 May 2008
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Serious
Hyundai Pony crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 24 May 1995
10 m awayRef 1995339503506
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 26 May 1994
10 m awayRef 1994339404065
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A50 in Leicester, 19 May 2000
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2001330106770 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 2001.