A563 crash in Blaby on 28 October 2018 at 11:20 involving a Hyundai i30
A Hyundai i30 and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A563 in Blaby at 11:20 on Sunday 28 October 2018. The 50-year-old male driver of the Hyundai i30, a 50-year-old female passenger in the Hyundai i30 and an 18-year-old female passenger in the Hyundai i30 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 2018
- Sunday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i30 and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.599, longitude -1.18665, in the LE19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Enderby, Blaby, LE19 1SZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018331802022
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 563
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4560
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A563 in Blaby, 19 May 1998
7 m awayRef 1998339803739
Slight
Car crash on the A563 in Blaby, 21 February 2020
7 m awayRef 2020332000153
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A563 in Blaby, 5 April 2003
8 m awayRef 2003330302724
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A563 in Blaby, 1 February 2008
9 m awayRef 2008330800751
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A563 in Blaby, 6 November 1994
9 m awayRef 1994339408395
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A563 in Blaby, 26 October 2011
9 m awayRef 2011331105988
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2018331802022 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.