Unclassified road crash in Blaby LE3 on 24 December 1985 at 11:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Blaby at 11:00 on Tuesday 24 December 1985. The 51-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1985
- Tuesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61211, longitude -1.1645, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19853385S1273
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5418
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 85 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 1990.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19853385S1273 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.