C road crash in Blaby LE9 on 20 February 2016 at 11:50 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Honda Jazz were involved in a crash on a C road in Blaby at 11:50 on Saturday 20 February 2016. The 78-year-old male driver of the Honda Jazz and a 77-year-old female passenger in the Honda Jazz were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Feb 2016
- Saturday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63769, longitude -1.2286, in the LE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kirby Muxloe, Blaby, LE9 2AX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331600371
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 1987.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 21 February 1987
13 m awayRef 19873387S0118
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 19 May 2004
21 m awayRef 2004330403751
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 27 January 1983
42 m awayRef 19833383S0075
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 21 March 1982
43 m awayRef 19823382S0214
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Blaby, 22 February 1980
43 m awayRef 19803380S0145
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 30 June 1980
63 m awayRef 19803380S0539
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Jazz)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Jazz)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2016331600371 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 2016.