A563 crash in Leicester on 26 May 2013 at 12:59 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on the A563 in Leicester at 12:59 on Sunday 26 May 2013. The 40-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and the 32-year-old female driver of the Honda Civic 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
- 26 May 2013
- Sunday, 12:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59539, longitude -1.14983, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aylestone, Leicester, LE2 8PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013331300820
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 563
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 1996.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A563 in Leicester, 19 August 1996
7 m awayRef 1996339606116
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A563 in Leicester, 25 October 1999
7 m awayRef 1999339908263
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A563 in Leicester, 6 April 1998
7 m awayRef 1998339802535
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A563 in Leicester, 16 September 1993
7 m awayRef 1993339306462
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A563 in Leicester, 28 February 2009
7 m awayRef 2009330901357
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A563 in Leicester, 17 June 2010
7 m awayRef 2010331003471
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,204 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
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 2013331300820 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 2013.