Serious A47 crash in Hinckley and Bosworth on 3 May 1990 at 08:00 involving a Fiat Ducato van
A Fiat Ducato van hit a pedestrian on the A47 in Hinckley and Bosworth at 08:00 on Thursday 3 May 1990. An 11-year-old female 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
- 3 May 1990
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Ducato
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57073, longitude -1.3301, in the LE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Earl Shilton.
Map of where the crash happened in Hinckley and Bosworth
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990339003434
- Council area
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 47
- 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 21 June 2014.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 21 June 2014
At the same spotRef 2014331401099
Serious
Car crash on the A47 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 8 May 1980
At the same spotRef 19803380S0358
Slight
Jaguar XF Series crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 23 November 2025
3 m awayRef 2025332501150
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 28 September 1988
10 m awayRef 19883388H0409
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 29 June 1980
10 m awayRef 19803380S0533
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 6 March 2025
11 m awayRef 2025332500216
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Ducato
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,971 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Ducato)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, 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 1990339003434 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hinckley and Bosworth road accident statistics for 1990.