C road crash in Oadby and Wigston LE2 on 11 March 2024 at 13:50 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Toyota Auris were involved in a crash on a C road in Oadby and Wigston at 13:50 on Monday 11 March 2024. The 27-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra and a 30-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra 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
- 11 Mar 2024
- Monday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Toyota Auris
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.601, longitude -1.08402, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oadby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oadby St Peter's, Oadby and Wigston, LE2 5BA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024332400224
- Council area
- Oadby and Wigston
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2016.
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on a C road in Oadby and Wigston, 5 November 2016
7 m awayRef 2016331601814
Serious
Car crash on the B5403 in Oadby and Wigston, 14 January 1983
11 m awayRef 19833383S0043
Slight
Car crash on the B5403 in Oadby and Wigston, 1 June 1989
18 m awayRef 19893389W0211
Slight
Car crash on the B5403 in Oadby and Wigston, 12 August 1989
21 m awayRef 19893389W0283
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 23 July 1982
25 m awayRef 19823382S0560
Slight
Daewoo Lanos crash on a C road in Oadby and Wigston, 24 December 2012
29 m awayRef 2012331206686
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024332400224 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 2024.