Unclassified road crash in Leicester LE4 on 23 March 2012 at 08:10 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira hit two pedestrians on an unclassified road in Leicester at 08:10 on Friday 23 March 2012. A 76-year-old male pedestrian and an 81-year-old female pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2012
- Friday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64832, longitude -1.09795, in the LE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Troon, Leicester, LE4 9BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012331201624
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 2016.
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Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 23 May 2016
9 m awayRef 2016331600851
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Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 24 December 2003
21 m awayRef 2003330310340
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25 m awayRef 19873387E0308
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 81, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2012331201624 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 2012.