Unclassified road crash in Leicester LE3 on 25 April 1979 at 17:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Leicester at 17:25 on Wednesday 25 April 1979. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 1979
- Wednesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63667, longitude -1.19329, in the LE3 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
- 19793379E0296
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 1999.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 9 August 1999
10 m awayRef 1999339906059
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 12 August 1979
10 m awayRef 19793379E0585
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 2 February 2001
10 m awayRef 2001330101166
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 17 June 1995
14 m awayRef 1995339504108
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 19 February 1979
14 m awayRef 19793379E0123
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 10 March 2024
18 m awayRef 2024332400216
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 19793379E0296 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.