B5366 crash in Leicester on 5 January 2017 at 15:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B5366 in Leicester at 15:00 on Thursday 5 January 2017. The 32-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf and the 24-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra were 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
- 5 Jan 2017
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59007, longitude -1.1411, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Wigston, Oadby and Wigston, LE18 4WB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331700032
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5366
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5366 in Leicester, 2 May 2016
1 m awayRef 2016331600719
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B5366 in Leicester, 9 September 2013
2 m awayRef 2013331301626
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5366 in Leicester, 30 November 2015
2 m awayRef 2015331502064
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5366 in Leicester, 11 October 2013
2 m awayRef 2013331301800
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the B5366 in Leicester, 26 September 2012
3 m awayRef 2012331206060
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B5366 in Leicester, 29 August 2025
3 m awayRef 2025332500825
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2017331700032 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 2017.