Serious C road crash in Hinckley and Bosworth LE6 on 29 May 1979 at 23:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth at 23:25 on Tuesday 29 May 1979. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 May 1979
- Tuesday, 23:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65411, longitude -1.24737, in the LE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ratby.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19793379E0400
- Council area
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 29 January 1984
10 m awayRef 19843384E0087
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 3 June 1981
36 m awayRef 19813381E0411
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 26 May 1997
57 m awayRef 1997339703837
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 26 February 2002
78 m awayRef 2002330201681
Serious
Citroen C2 crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 7 April 2013
94 m awayRef 2013331300973
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 15 August 2005
130 m awayRef 2005330506061
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 19793379E0400 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hinckley and Bosworth road accident statistics for 1979.