C road crash in Blaby LE19 on 20 March 2015 at 08:40 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in Blaby at 08:40 on Friday 20 March 2015. The 50-year-old female driver of the car and the 37-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 2015
- Friday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61122, longitude -1.22795, in the LE19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331500449
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 2002.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on a C road in Blaby, 27 June 2002
6 m awayRef 2002330204884
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Austin Metro crash on a C road in Blaby, 20 December 1996
9 m awayRef 1996339609720
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Blaby, 11 February 2015
11 m awayRef 2015331500189
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 16 June 1979
24 m awayRef 19793379S0468
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Blaby, 11 July 2004
36 m awayRef 2004330405177
Slight
Kawasaki KMX200 crash on a C road in Blaby, 11 September 1993
47 m awayRef 1993339306325
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2015331500449 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 2015.