Serious unclassified road crash in Blaby LE3 on 16 May 1985 at 17:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Blaby at 17:05 on Thursday 16 May 1985. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 May 1985
- Thursday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60142, longitude -1.17859, 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
- 19853385S0372
- 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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 2020.
Slight
Car crash on the A5460 in Blaby, 28 September 2020
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 16 October 1987
14 m awayRef 19873387S0866
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5460 in Blaby, 11 December 2009
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 10 February 2009
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 9 February 1989
14 m awayRef 19893389B0041
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 19853385S0372 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.