C road crash in Charnwood LE7 on 3 April 1985 at 09:30 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on a C road in Charnwood at 09:30 on Wednesday 3 April 1985. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 1985
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.71254, longitude -1.09331, in the LE7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19853385N0185
- Council area
- Charnwood
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 July 2007.
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Slight
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Slight
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Volkswagen Transporter crash on a C road in Charnwood, 1 September 2008
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 19853385N0185 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Charnwood road accident statistics for 1985.