C road crash in Blaby LE3 on 25 February 1995 at 02:15 involving a Vauxhall Carlton
A Vauxhall Carlton crashed on a C road in Blaby at 02:15 on Saturday 25 February 1995. The 24-year-old male driver and a 23-year-old male passenger were 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
- 25 Feb 1995
- Saturday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Carlton
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62884, longitude -1.20555, in the LE3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995339501481
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 27 June 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Blaby, 27 June 1981
At the same spotRef 19813381S0575
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Blaby, 1 August 1984
At the same spotRef 19843384S0765
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5380 in Blaby, 7 April 2001
At the same spotRef 2001330102931
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Blaby, 8 November 1979
At the same spotRef 19793379S1019
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 3 September 1985
At the same spotRef 19853385S0781
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B5380 in Blaby, 26 August 1996
At the same spotRef 1996339606176
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Carlton)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Carlton)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1995339501481 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 1995.