M69 crash in Blaby on 17 February 2007 at 17:40 involving a Proton Proton
A Proton Proton and a car were involved in a crash on the M69 in Blaby at 17:40 on Saturday 17 February 2007. The 63-year-old male driver of the Proton Proton was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2007
- Saturday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Proton Proton and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59244, longitude -1.22436, in the LE19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Narborough and Enderby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Enderby, Blaby, LE19 4AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007330701237
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 69
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M69 in Blaby, 28 April 2014
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Slight
Lorry crash on the M69 in Blaby, 18 August 1980
10 m awayRef 19803380S0692
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the M69 in Blaby, 9 May 2003
10 m awayRef 2003330303583
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 13 May 1985
71 m awayRef 19853385S0369
Slight
Nissan 200 crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 8 December 1995
72 m awayRef 1995339551184
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the M69 in Blaby, 11 June 2017
103 m awayRef 2017331700774
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Proton Proton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Proton Proton)
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 2007330701237 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blaby road accident statistics for 2007.