Unclassified road crash in Leicester LE5 on 3 March 2004 at 08:30 involving a Vauxhall Tigra
A Vauxhall Tigra and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Leicester at 08:30 on Wednesday 3 March 2004. The 34-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Tigra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Mar 2004
- Wednesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Tigra and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65357, longitude -1.06259, in the LE5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Humberstone & Hamilton, Leicester, LE5 1JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004330401673
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 2004.
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32 m awayRef 2004330402190
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 11 November 2018
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 13 April 2024
58 m awayRef 2024332400324
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 31 October 2025
64 m awayRef 2025332501283
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 10 July 2008
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Tigra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,793 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Tigra)
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 2004330401673 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 2004.