Unclassified road crash in Oadby and Wigston LE2 on 29 March 2019 at 12:04 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston at 12:04 on Friday 29 March 2019. The 60-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 2019
- Friday, 12:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59067, longitude -1.06495, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oadby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oadby Woodlands, Oadby and Wigston, LE2 4RU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019331900306
- Council area
- Oadby and Wigston
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 6
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2016.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A6 in Oadby and Wigston, 23 August 2016
1 m awayRef 2016331601422
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6 in Oadby and Wigston, 10 February 2017
2 m awayRef 2017331700054
Slight
Audi SQ5 crash on the A6 in Oadby and Wigston, 18 November 2018
3 m awayRef 2018331801383
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 7 October 2012
4 m awayRef 2012331206070
Serious
Toyota Celica crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 2 August 1999
4 m awayRef 1999339905845
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 25 March 2011
4 m awayRef 2011331101651
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019331900306 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oadby and Wigston road accident statistics for 2019.