C road crash in Leicester LE1 on 1 March 1979 at 08:15 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on a C road in Leicester at 08:15 on Thursday 1 March 1979. A 23-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 1979
- Thursday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63335, longitude -1.12997, in the LE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19793379C0078
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 1983.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 12 September 1983
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Slight
Dodge crash on a C road in Leicester, 17 May 1991
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Serious
Bus crash on a C road in Leicester, 22 August 1981
At the same spotRef 19813381C0341
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 26 December 1989
At the same spotRef 19893389A0508
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 17 November 1984
At the same spotRef 19843384C0598
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 27 August 1983
At the same spotRef 19833383C0352
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 19793379C0078 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Leicester road accident statistics for 1979.