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Serious A563 crash in Leicester on 10 November 1987 at 15:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A563 in Leicester at 15:30 on Tuesday 10 November 1987. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
10 Nov 1987
Tuesday, 15:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.642, longitude -1.18329, in the LE3 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
19873387E0926
Council area
Leicester
Police force
Leicestershire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
563
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
C

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Central refuge, no other controls

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 2011.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    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 19873387E0926 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 1987.