B585 crash in North West Leicestershire on 30 November 1985 at 02:08 involving a car
A car crashed on the B585 in North West Leicestershire at 02:08 on Saturday 30 November 1985. A 28-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 1985
- Saturday, 02:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.72308, longitude -1.37411, in the LE67 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coalville.
Map of where the crash happened in North West Leicestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19853385N0774
- Council area
- North West Leicestershire
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 585
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 26 December 1991.
Serious
Car crash on the B585 in North West Leicestershire, 26 December 1991
At the same spotRef 1991339109452
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in North West Leicestershire, 8 July 2011
At the same spotRef 2011331103853
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B585 in North West Leicestershire, 27 June 1985
At the same spotRef 19853385N0378
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on a C road in North West Leicestershire, 12 December 2016
5 m awayRef 2016331602219
Slight
Leyland crash on the B585 in North West Leicestershire, 1 January 1993
10 m awayRef 1993339300017
Slight
Car crash on the B585 in North West Leicestershire, 19 August 1980
10 m awayRef 19803380N0508
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 19853385N0774 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North West Leicestershire road accident statistics for 1985.