Unclassified road crash in Oadby and Wigston LE2 on 2 August 2014 at 18:00 involving a Saab 9-3
A Saab 9-3 and a Peugeot 107 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston at 18:00 on Saturday 2 August 2014. The 41-year-old male driver of the Saab 9-3 was 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
- 2 Aug 2014
- Saturday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Saab 9-3 and Peugeot 107
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59627, longitude -1.08182, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oadby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oadby St Peter's, Oadby and Wigston, LE2 5BA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014331401382
- Council area
- Oadby and Wigston
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 2001.
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the B582 in Oadby and Wigston, 22 March 2001
At the same spotRef 2001330102395
Slight
Car crash on the A5096 in Oadby and Wigston, 19 July 1981
At the same spotRef 19813381S0643
Slight
Car crash on the A5096 in Oadby and Wigston, 20 December 1989
At the same spotRef 19893389W0501
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B582 in Oadby and Wigston, 2 December 2001
At the same spotRef 2001330109608
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B582 in Oadby and Wigston, 14 October 1996
At the same spotRef 1996339607575
Serious
Citroen C4 crash on the B582 in Oadby and Wigston, 16 July 2018
7 m awayRef 2018331800766
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Saab 9-3)
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 2014331401382 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oadby and Wigston road accident statistics for 2014.