C road crash in Leicester LE2 on 22 December 2012 at 18:15 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a Rover 25 were involved in a crash on a C road in Leicester at 18:15 on Saturday 22 December 2012. The 39-year-old female driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and Rover 25
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6296, longitude -1.11415, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stoneygate, Leicester, LE2 1GB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012331206673
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 1984.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 3 May 1984
5 m awayRef 19843384C0193
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 13 October 1981
5 m awayRef 19813381C0427
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in Leicester, 3 August 1996
5 m awayRef 1996339605642
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on a C road in Leicester, 7 February 2003
5 m awayRef 2003330301094
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 18 December 1985
5 m awayRef 19853385C0605
Slight
Morris Ital crash on a C road in Leicester, 16 July 1993
5 m awayRef 1993339304942
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
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 2012331206673 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.