C road crash in Leicester LE3 on 22 December 2017 at 18:10 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Leicester at 18:10 on Friday 22 December 2017. The 18-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2017
- Friday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63885, longitude -1.15253, in the LE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fosse, Leicester, LE3 6RA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331701709
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 August 2016.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Leicester, 2 August 2016
2 m awayRef 2016331601247
Slight
Car crash on the A5125 in Leicester, 11 February 1981
5 m awayRef 19813381C0067
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in Leicester, 14 December 2009
5 m awayRef 2009330907716
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Leicester, 22 July 2008
5 m awayRef 2008330804754
Slight
Subaru Justy crash on the A5125 in Leicester, 30 May 1998
5 m awayRef 1998339804035
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on a C road in Leicester, 30 August 2011
5 m awayRef 2011331104888
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 18, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017331701709 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.