Unclassified road crash in North West Leicestershire LE67 on 13 February 2018 at 14:15 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North West Leicestershire at 14:15 on Tuesday 13 February 2018. The 15-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Feb 2018
- Tuesday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.70084, longitude -1.36477, in the LE67 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ellistown. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ellistown & Battleflat, North West Leicestershire, LE67 1EN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North West Leicestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018331800110
- Council area
- North West Leicestershire
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 65 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 February 1989.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North West Leicestershire, 3 February 1989
65 m awayRef 19893389C0038
Slight
Freight Rover crash on the B591 in North West Leicestershire, 16 December 1992
200 m awayRef 1992339209175
Serious
Ford KA crash on a C road in North West Leicestershire, 18 January 2012
205 m awayRef 2012331200339
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in North West Leicestershire, 13 June 1997
209 m awayRef 1997339704243
Slight
Freight Rover crash on a C road in North West Leicestershire, 22 April 1998
210 m awayRef 1998339802972
Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in North West Leicestershire, 19 February 2001
216 m awayRef 2001330101700
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2018331800110 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North West Leicestershire road accident statistics for 2018.