Unclassified road crash in Oadby and Wigston LE18 on 15 August 1985 at 12:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston at 12:15 on Thursday 15 August 1985. A 70-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 1985
- Thursday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57957, longitude -1.12719, in the LE18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wigston.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19853385S0705
- Council area
- Oadby and Wigston
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 2015.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 19 September 2015
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 9 June 2001
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Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 18 August 1996
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 1 June 1985
50 m awayRef 19853385S0444
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 13 December 2018
67 m awayRef 2018331801340
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 70, 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 19853385S0705 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oadby and Wigston road accident statistics for 1985.