C road crash in Blaby LE9 on 11 July 2018 at 22:00 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Blaby at 22:00 on Wednesday 11 July 2018. The 49-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Insignia and a 53-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Insignia were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 2018
- Wednesday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Insignia and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54747, longitude -1.19418, in the LE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cosby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cosby & South Whetstone, Blaby, LE9 1UJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018331800743
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 2007.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Blaby, 15 May 2007
11 m awayRef 2007330703303
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on a C road in Blaby, 12 October 2003
18 m awayRef 2003330307903
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Blaby, 14 March 2013
36 m awayRef 2013331300420
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Blaby, 8 December 2001
39 m awayRef 2001330109701
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Blaby, 25 January 1988
39 m awayRef 19883388W0029
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Blaby, 16 February 1983
43 m awayRef 19833383S0130
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018331800743 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 2018.