Unclassified road crash in Blaby LE3 on 31 July 1987 at 00:40 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Blaby at 00:40 on Friday 31 July 1987. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 1987
- Friday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64259, longitude -1.19171, 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
- 19873387E0789
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 1993.
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Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 27 June 1993
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 16 March 1988
14 m awayRef 19883388B0085
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 26 October 1979
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Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 31 August 1992
36 m awayRef 1992339205840
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 24 January 2019
38 m awayRef 2019331900098
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Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 29 July 1991
40 m awayRef 1991339105290
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 19873387E0789 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 1987.