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A47 crash in Blaby on 10 February 1998 at 07:10 involving a Fiat Panda

A Fiat Panda and a car were involved in a crash on the A47 in Blaby at 07:10 on Tuesday 10 February 1998. The 49-year-old female driver of the Fiat Panda was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
10 Feb 1998
Tuesday, 07:10
Vehicles
2
Fiat Panda and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62701, longitude -1.20086, in the LE3 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Blaby

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998339801068
Council area
Blaby
Police force
Leicestershire
Highway authority
Leicestershire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
47
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
C

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian phase at traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2005.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    49 years
    Engine capacity
    999 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    36 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)

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 1998339801068 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 1998.