B582 crash in Oadby and Wigston on 26 January 2016 at 12:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the B582 in Oadby and Wigston at 12:20 on Tuesday 26 January 2016. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2016
- Tuesday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57959, longitude -1.13493, in the LE18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wigston. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Wigston, Oadby and Wigston, LE18 4SZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Oadby and Wigston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331600151
- Council area
- Oadby and Wigston
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 582
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2022.
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the B582 in Oadby and Wigston, 7 May 2022
5 m awayRef 2022332200372
Slight
Car crash on the A5096 in Oadby and Wigston, 14 June 1979
5 m awayRef 19793379S0464
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B582 in Oadby and Wigston, 18 July 2014
10 m awayRef 2014331405096
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B582 in Oadby and Wigston, 23 November 2012
15 m awayRef 2012331206488
Slight
Car crash on the A5096 in Oadby and Wigston, 30 July 1984
15 m awayRef 19843384S0681
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5096 in Oadby and Wigston, 10 February 1981
18 m awayRef 19813381S0131
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2016331600151 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oadby and Wigston road accident statistics for 2016.