A5460 crash in Blaby on 14 July 2017 at 07:50 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper, a Volkswagen Scirocco and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A5460 in Blaby at 07:50 on Friday 14 July 2017. The 34-year-old female driver of the Mini Cooper and the 22-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Scirocco were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2017
- Friday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mini Cooper and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.612, longitude -1.16716, in the LE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Braunstone Ravenhurst, Blaby, LE3 2GE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331700893
- 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
- 5460
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- 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 11 January 2008.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A5460 in Blaby, 11 January 2008
6 m awayRef 2008330800166
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A5460 in Blaby, 5 November 2011
6 m awayRef 2011331106245
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A5460 in Blaby, 15 December 2018
11 m awayRef 2018331801347
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 24 October 2013
13 m awayRef 2013331301902
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 27 October 1989
14 m awayRef 19893389B0383
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A5460 in Blaby, 7 January 2008
17 m awayRef 2008330800117
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Scirocco
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Scirocco)
- 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 2017331700893 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 2017.