A6 crash in Oadby and Wigston on 26 October 2016 at 08:16 involving a Kia Rio
A Kia Rio hit a pedestrian on the A6 in Oadby and Wigston at 08:16 on Wednesday 26 October 2016. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2016
- Wednesday, 08:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Rio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59159, longitude -1.06629, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oadby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oadby Woodlands, Oadby and Wigston, LE2 4RU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331601745
- Council area
- Oadby and Wigston
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Oadby and Wigston, 20 November 1985
9 m awayRef 19853385S1111
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Oadby and Wigston, 30 August 1984
9 m awayRef 19843384S0783
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Oadby and Wigston, 11 April 1982
12 m awayRef 19823382S0267
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6 in Oadby and Wigston, 17 December 2003
12 m awayRef 2003330310091
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6 in Oadby and Wigston, 1 November 1985
12 m awayRef 19853385S1006
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in Oadby and Wigston, 25 March 1988
12 m awayRef 19883388W0124
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Kia Rio)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016331601745 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.