B4666 crash in Hinckley and Bosworth on 5 November 1998 at 17:00 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the B4666 in Hinckley and Bosworth at 17:00 on Thursday 5 November 1998. A 40-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 1998
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53706, longitude -1.38737, in the LE10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hinckley.
Map of where the crash happened in Hinckley and Bosworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998339808473
- Council area
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4666
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 10 October 1980
At the same spotRef 19803380S0951
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B4666 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 9 February 2016
5 m awayRef 2016331600302
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B4666 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 9 December 2014
6 m awayRef 2014331402356
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4666 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 11 August 2017
9 m awayRef 2017331701319
Slight
Car crash on the B4666 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 2 December 2008
10 m awayRef 2008330807996
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B4666 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 1 October 2004
10 m awayRef 2004330407361
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- 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 1998339808473 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 1998.