Serious unclassified road crash in Blaby LE3 on 25 May 1985 at 22:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Blaby at 22:30 on Saturday 25 May 1985. A 57-year-old male 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
- 25 May 1985
- Saturday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64888, longitude -1.20415, in the LE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19853385E0382
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 7 May 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 7 May 1988
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Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 22 March 1993
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 25 May 1981
14 m awayRef 19813381E0377
Slight
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Slight
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 8 October 2016
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 57, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 19853385E0382 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blaby road accident statistics for 1985.