Serious B582 crash in Oadby and Wigston on 19 November 2011 at 03:45 involving a Subaru Impreza
A Subaru Impreza crashed on the B582 in Oadby and Wigston at 03:45 on Saturday 19 November 2011. The 33-year-old male driver and a 30-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Nov 2011
- Saturday, 03:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Impreza
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61357, longitude -1.07511, in the LE2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oadby Grange, Oadby and Wigston, LE2 2GP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Oadby and Wigston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011331106533
- Council area
- Oadby and Wigston
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 582
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B582 in Oadby and Wigston, 12 March 2007
At the same spotRef 2007330701854
Slight
Honda crash on the B667 in Oadby and Wigston, 10 October 1995
At the same spotRef 1995339507075
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B667 in Oadby and Wigston, 17 December 1999
At the same spotRef 1999339910023
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Oadby and Wigston, 26 November 1983
At the same spotRef 19833383S1071
Slight
Isuzu Trooper crash on a C road in Oadby and Wigston, 29 April 1998
At the same spotRef 1998339803162
Slight
Car crash on the B582 in Oadby and Wigston, 9 April 2004
At the same spotRef 2004330402765
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,990 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
- 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 2011331106533 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oadby and Wigston road accident statistics for 2011.