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A6 crash in Charnwood on 5 May 1997 at 08:30 involving a minibus

A minibus crashed on the A6 in Charnwood at 08:30 on Monday 5 May 1997. A 30-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
5 May 1997
Monday, 08:30
Vehicles
1
Minibus
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.78208, longitude -1.22753, in the LE11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Loughborough.

Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997339703829
Council area
Charnwood
Police force
Leicestershire
Highway authority
Leicestershire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
6
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2005.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Minibus

    Minibus or motor caravan

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 30, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)

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 1997339703829 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Charnwood road accident statistics for 1997.