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Serious A563 crash in Leicester on 29 July 1986 at 13:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A563 in Leicester at 13:30 on Tuesday 29 July 1986. A 9-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
29 Jul 1986
Tuesday, 13:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59701, longitude -1.12803, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester.

Map of where the crash happened in Leicester

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19863386S0733
Council area
Leicester
Police force
Leicestershire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
563
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 19863386S0733 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.