Serious A5131 crash in Leicester on 22 December 1986 at 07:42 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A5131 in Leicester at 07:42 on Monday 22 December 1986. An 80-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 22 Dec 1986; Monday, 07:42
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19863386E1110
Council area: Leicester
Police force: Leicestershire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 5131
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 40 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: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
Travelling from
South West
Travelling to
North East
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
43 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
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 19863386E1110 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Leicester road accident statistics for 1986.