C road crash in Blaby LE9 on 7 May 2015 at 11:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on a C road in Blaby at 11:30 on Thursday 7 May 2015. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 2015
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54729, longitude -1.19604, 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
- 2015331500616
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 49 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 July 2007.
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in Blaby, 13 July 2007
49 m awayRef 2007330704911
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Blaby, 9 January 2014
54 m awayRef 2014331400009
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Blaby, 9 September 1997
63 m awayRef 1997339706532
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on a C road in Blaby, 21 May 2007
64 m awayRef 2007330703720
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on a C road in Blaby, 13 July 2007
66 m awayRef 2007330704862
Slight
Audi A6 crash on a C road in Blaby, 19 October 2024
66 m awayRef 2024332401001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2015331500616 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.