A426 crash in Blaby on 18 December 2016 at 11:20 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Mini Countryman were involved in a crash on the A426 in Blaby at 11:20 on Sunday 18 December 2016. The 63-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris 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
- 18 Dec 2016
- Sunday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Mini Countryman
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58819, longitude -1.16083, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Glen Parva, Blaby, LE2 9PU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331602200
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 426
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 2023.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A426 in Blaby, 19 May 2023
1 m awayRef 2023332300367
Slight
Car crash on the A426 in Blaby, 19 June 2023
3 m awayRef 2023332300484
Slight
Citroen C5 crash on the A426 in Blaby, 28 October 2011
5 m awayRef 2011331106069
Slight
Car crash on the A426 in Blaby, 18 December 1982
5 m awayRef 19823382S1100
Slight
Car crash on the A426 in Blaby, 23 May 1979
5 m awayRef 19793379S0406
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A426 in Blaby, 11 June 1998
5 m awayRef 1998339804500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mini Countryman
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- 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 2016331602200 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.