Serious A594 crash in Leicester on 13 December 2015 at 11:26 involving a Volvo XC60
A Volvo XC60, a Mitsubishi Outlander and a Toyota Auris were involved in a crash on the A594 in Leicester at 11:26 on Sunday 13 December 2015. The 33-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi Outlander and an 11-year-old female passenger in the Mitsubishi Outlander were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Dec 2015
- Sunday, 11:26
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volvo XC60 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64024, longitude -1.13351, in the LE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Leicester, LE1 1WA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331502068
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 594
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A594 in Leicester, 4 June 2011
4 m awayRef 2011331103026
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A594 in Leicester, 13 December 2013
6 m awayRef 2013331302268
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A46 in Leicester, 11 June 1986
6 m awayRef 19863386C0260
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A594 in Leicester, 13 October 2018
7 m awayRef 2018331801122
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A594 in Leicester, 12 January 2001
12 m awayRef 2001330100419
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A594 in Leicester, 20 May 2015
15 m awayRef 2015331500787
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volvo XC60
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Outlander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Outlander)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Outlander)
- 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 2015331502068 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.