A47 crash in Blaby on 3 December 1986 at 16:30

A vehicle crashed on the A47 in Blaby at 16:30 on Wednesday 3 December 1986. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 3 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 16:30
Vehicles: 1; Other vehicle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19863386S1222
Council area: Blaby
Police force: Leicestershire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 47
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 60 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: Dark, no street lighting
Weather: Fine with high winds
Road surface: Dry
Carriageway hazards: Other object in carriageway

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South West
Travelling to
North East
Hit object in carriageway
Other object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
28 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 28, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other 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 19863386S1222 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 1986.