C road crash in Blaby LE7 on 29 October 2018 at 09:05 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on a C road in Blaby at 09:05 on Monday 29 October 2018. The 71-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 69-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2018
- Monday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.66047, longitude -1.19285, in the LE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Glenfield Ellis, Blaby, LE3 8GJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018331802156
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Blaby, 15 January 1996
15 m awayRef 1996339600336
Slight
Austin Mini crash on a C road in Blaby, 16 September 1999
15 m awayRef 1999339907108
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Blaby, 29 February 2000
27 m awayRef 2000330001638
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Blaby, 9 November 2006
27 m awayRef 2006330608091
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Blaby, 25 November 2002
27 m awayRef 2002330209408
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Blaby, 12 December 1996
59 m awayRef 1996339609458
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2018331802156 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.