B5325 crash in Hinckley and Bosworth on 6 December 1997 at 15:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B5325 in Hinckley and Bosworth at 15:25 on Saturday 6 December 1997. A 26-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 1997
- Saturday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56948, longitude -1.34782, in the LE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barwell.
Map of where the crash happened in Hinckley and Bosworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997339709285
- Council area
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5325
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1990.
Slight
Vespa (Douglas) crash on the B5325 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 9 April 1990
14 m awayRef 1990339002734
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 25 July 2021
21 m awayRef 2021332100551
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B5325 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 17 February 1998
28 m awayRef 1998339801280
Slight
Car crash on the B5325 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 16 November 1987
28 m awayRef 19873387S0963
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5325 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 24 July 1981
42 m awayRef 19813381S0668
Slight
Car crash on the B5325 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 29 June 1997
50 m awayRef 1997339704726
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 1997339709285 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hinckley and Bosworth road accident statistics for 1997.