A5460 crash in Blaby on 4 May 2014 at 12:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A5460 in Blaby at 12:10 on Sunday 4 May 2014. A 29-year-old male passenger in the BMW 3 Series and a 64-year-old male passenger in the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2014
- Sunday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60057, longitude -1.18982, in the LE19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Enderby, Blaby, LE19 1SZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014331400795
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5460
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 563
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 2025.
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A5460 in Blaby, 30 September 2025
10 m awayRef 2025332500945
Slight
Lorry crash on the A46 in Blaby, 19 November 1985
10 m awayRef 19853385S1208
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A5460 in Blaby, 28 May 1998
10 m awayRef 1998339804004
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A5460 in Blaby, 4 September 2001
20 m awayRef 2001330106880
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A5460 in Blaby, 8 October 2005
20 m awayRef 2005330507578
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A5460 in Blaby, 11 March 1997
22 m awayRef 1997339701805
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
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
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2014331400795 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 2014.