B5324 crash in North West Leicestershire on 24 May 1999 at 16:00 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire at 16:00 on Monday 24 May 1999. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 1999
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77452, longitude -1.36611, in the LE12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North West Leicestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999339903976
- Council area
- North West Leicestershire
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5324
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1998.
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Ford Escort crash on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire, 20 December 1998
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Suzuki crash on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire, 14 May 1997
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Kawasaki crash on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire, 6 June 1999
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Talbot Samba crash on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire, 14 June 1998
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Serious
Honda crash on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire, 30 May 2019
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Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire, 9 September 1998
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Bus stop or bus shelter
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 1999339903976 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North West Leicestershire road accident statistics for 1999.