B568 crash in Leicester on 16 November 2015 at 10:12 involving a Ford Fiesta van
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 2015
- Monday, 10:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61862, longitude -1.12079, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331501915
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 568
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 1997.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B568 in Leicester, 28 November 1997
1 m awayRef 1997339709091
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B568 in Leicester, 2 March 1992
23 m awayRef 1992339201459
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B568 in Leicester, 24 April 1992
23 m awayRef 1992339202774
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the B568 in Leicester, 26 February 2013
23 m awayRef 2013331300295
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B568 in Leicester, 14 July 2025
24 m awayRef 2025332500686
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B568 in Leicester, 21 July 1982
28 m awayRef 19823382C0269
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag approach lines
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2015331501915 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.