Unclassified road crash in Leicester LE3 on 2 August 2015 at 00:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Leicester at 00:10 on Sunday 2 August 2015. The 52-year-old male driver of vehicle 2, a 19-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 and a 41-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2015
- Sunday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6292, longitude -1.15432, in the LE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westcotes, Leicester, LE3 0BR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331501250
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 18 December 2014
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 22 January 1981
20 m awayRef 19813381C0077
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Leicester, 25 May 2016
23 m awayRef 2016331600844
Slight
Talbot Solara crash on a C road in Leicester, 9 July 1991
23 m awayRef 1991339104817
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Leicester, 24 January 2008
23 m awayRef 2008330804301
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 29 January 1983
23 m awayRef 19833383C0041
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: 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
- 52 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 2015331501250 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 2015.