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Serious unclassified road crash in Leicester LE1 on 24 January 1980 at 11:54 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Leicester at 11:54 on Thursday 24 January 1980. A 70-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
24 Jan 1980
Thursday, 11:54
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63632, longitude -1.1305, 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
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19803380C0032
Council area
Leicester
Police force
Leicestershire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
6

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    48 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    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 19803380C0032 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 1980.