A6030 crash in Leicester on 24 May 1997 at 11:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 1997
- Saturday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61551, longitude -1.10166, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997339703944
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6030
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2010.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A6030 in Leicester, 2 February 2010
10 m awayRef 2010331000620
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6030 in Leicester, 13 February 2015
19 m awayRef 2015331501156
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Leicester, 12 September 2010
20 m awayRef 2010331005342
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6030 in Leicester, 4 June 2013
21 m awayRef 2013331300911
Slight
Fiat Bravo crash on the A6030 in Leicester, 10 October 2003
22 m awayRef 2003330307710
Slight
Car crash on the A6030 in Leicester, 23 September 1988
22 m awayRef 19883388W0342
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 1997339703944 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Leicester road accident statistics for 1997.