Serious unclassified road crash in Blaby LE3 on 18 November 2007 at 00:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Blaby at 00:50 on Sunday 18 November 2007. A 22-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and a 23-year-old male passenger and a 23-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Nov 2007
- Sunday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61399, longitude -1.194, in the LE3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thorpe Astley & St Mary's, Blaby, LE19 1WH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007330707992
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2007330707992 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.