C road crash in Leicester LE2 on 7 September 2016 at 08:41 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 hit a pedestrian on a C road in Leicester at 08:41 on Wednesday 7 September 2016. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2016
- Wednesday, 08:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61016, longitude -1.13554, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Leicester, LE2 6EQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331602056
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
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, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 April 1982.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 7 April 1982
7 m awayRef 19823382S0257
Serious
Honda crash on a C road in Leicester, 4 November 1992
7 m awayRef 1992339207875
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 20 June 1988
13 m awayRef 19883388W0229
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on a C road in Leicester, 22 November 2025
13 m awayRef 2025332501147
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Leicester, 30 March 1984
17 m awayRef 19843384S0298
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 22 April 1981
17 m awayRef 19813381S0363
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 2016331602056 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 2016.