Unclassified road crash in Leicester LE2 on 17 July 1997 at 17:55 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Leicester at 17:55 on Thursday 17 July 1997. A 22-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 1997
- Thursday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60714, longitude -1.14909, 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
- 1997339705165
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 426
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2014.
Slight
Mobility scooter crash on the A426 in Leicester, 5 March 2014
9 m awayRef 2014331400449
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A426 in Leicester, 27 June 1999
14 m awayRef 1999339904945
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A426 in Leicester, 24 December 1994
14 m awayRef 1994339410086
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A426 in Leicester, 24 March 1982
20 m awayRef 19823382S0219
Slight
Car crash on the A426 in Leicester, 30 September 2020
20 m awayRef 2020332000757
Slight
Bus crash on the A426 in Leicester, 26 May 2005
20 m awayRef 2005330503793
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 1997339705165 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.