C road crash in Blaby LE9 on 14 March 2013 at 07:20 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on a C road in Blaby at 07:20 on Thursday 14 March 2013. The 35-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 2013
- Thursday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54769, longitude -1.19448, in the LE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cosby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cosby & South Whetstone, Blaby, LE9 1UJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013331300420
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 1979.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 16 November 1979
21 m awayRef 19793379S1045
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 6 September 1985
25 m awayRef 19853385S0812
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Blaby, 16 February 1983
25 m awayRef 19833383S0130
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Blaby, 15 May 2007
27 m awayRef 2007330703303
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on a C road in Blaby, 12 October 2003
34 m awayRef 2003330307903
Slight
Hillman Imp crash on a C road in Blaby, 13 October 1991
34 m awayRef 1991339107263
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- 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
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 2013331300420 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 2013.