B5403 crash in Oadby and Wigston on 27 November 2017 at 17:00 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane hit a pedestrian on the B5403 in Oadby and Wigston at 17:00 on Monday 27 November 2017. A 32-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2017
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59685, longitude -1.07628, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oadby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oadby St Peter's, Oadby and Wigston, LE2 5BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Oadby and Wigston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331701612
- Council area
- Oadby and Wigston
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5403
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B5403 in Oadby and Wigston, 6 February 1985
6 m awayRef 19853385S0085
Slight
Car crash on the B5403 in Oadby and Wigston, 4 April 1990
6 m awayRef 1990339002609
Slight
Car crash on the B5403 in Oadby and Wigston, 29 August 1982
9 m awayRef 19823382S0674
Slight
Car crash on the B5403 in Oadby and Wigston, 27 August 1979
9 m awayRef 19793379S0724
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5403 in Oadby and Wigston, 8 November 1999
15 m awayRef 1999339908719
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5403 in Oadby and Wigston, 9 October 1994
17 m awayRef 1994339407648
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017331701612 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oadby and Wigston road accident statistics for 2017.