Unclassified road crash in Leicester LE5 on 21 December 2016 at 10:00 involving a Peugeot 406
A car and a Peugeot 406 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Leicester at 10:00 on Wednesday 21 December 2016. The 49-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 406 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot 406
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6394, longitude -1.06136, in the LE5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thurncourt, Leicester, LE5 2NH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331602119
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 1993.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 17 April 1993
6 m awayRef 1993339302642
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 13 July 1998
6 m awayRef 1998339805287
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 8 March 2006
6 m awayRef 2006330601613
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 18 August 1993
8 m awayRef 1993339305741
Slight
Morris Marina crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 4 April 1996
52 m awayRef 1996339602635
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 27 October 2010
83 m awayRef 2010331006190
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 406)
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 2016331602119 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.