C road crash in Blaby LE8 on 4 October 1997 at 16:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Blaby at 16:30 on Saturday 4 October 1997. A 3-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 1997
- Saturday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5559, longitude -1.13607, in the LE8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Countesthorpe.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997339707262
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 1990.
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on a C road in Blaby, 6 March 1990
20 m awayRef 1990339001864
Serious
Volkswagen Caddy crash on a C road in Blaby, 13 March 2001
61 m awayRef 2001330102175
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on a C road in Blaby, 28 October 2001
81 m awayRef 2001330108889
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Blaby, 23 December 1991
81 m awayRef 1991339109321
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 26 August 1988
82 m awayRef 19883388W0321
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 1 March 2012
91 m awayRef 2012331201368
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1997339707262 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 1997.