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A47 crash in Blaby on 21 May 1994 at 08:10 involving a Piaggio motorcycle

A Piaggio motorcycle and a Volkswagen Beetle were involved in a crash on the A47 in Blaby at 08:10 on Saturday 21 May 1994. The 34-year-old male rider of the Piaggio motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
21 May 1994
Saturday, 08:10
Vehicles
2
Piaggio and Volkswagen Beetle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62232, longitude -1.22532, in the LE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe.

Map of where the crash happened in Blaby

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1994339404002
Council area
Blaby
Police force
Leicestershire
Highway authority
Leicestershire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
47
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
50 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

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 19 December 2000.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Piaggio

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    34 years

  • Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Beetle

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years
    Engine capacity
    1,285 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 34, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Piaggio)

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 1994339404002 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 1994.