Serious C road crash in Leicester LE3 on 25 January 1985 at 11:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Leicester at 11:50 on Friday 25 January 1985. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jan 1985
- Friday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64162, longitude -1.18153, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19853385E0060
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 1979.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 23 January 1979
10 m awayRef 19793379E0060
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 28 May 1982
20 m awayRef 19823382E0405
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Leicester, 7 November 1990
20 m awayRef 1990339008231
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 31 December 2000
20 m awayRef 2000330010415
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Leicester, 30 September 1981
32 m awayRef 19813381E0779
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 29 March 1987
36 m awayRef 19873387E0204
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 15, 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 19853385E0060 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 1985.