Serious unclassified road crash in Oadby and Wigston LE2 on 24 March 1994 at 11:25 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston at 11:25 on Thursday 24 March 1994. A 75-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
- 24 Mar 1994
- Thursday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59286, longitude -1.07792, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oadby.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994339402680
- Council area
- Oadby and Wigston
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 8 November 1983
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Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 23 October 2000
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Slight
Mazda 2 crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 12 April 2024
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 7 October 1992
71 m awayRef 1992339206923
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Oadby and Wigston, 1 April 1994
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
- 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 1994339402680 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oadby and Wigston road accident statistics for 1994.