Fatal A5460 crash in Blaby on 30 May 1999 at 21:32 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla crashed on the A5460 in Blaby at 21:32 on Sunday 30 May 1999. A 16-year-old male passenger was killed and a 19-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 30 May 1999
- Sunday, 21:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 killed, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60175, longitude -1.17813, in the LE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999339904099
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5460
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
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The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2016.
Slight
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Volvo crash on the A46 in Blaby, 27 October 1991
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Fatal
Car crash on the A46 in Blaby, 5 June 1987
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 16 August 1985
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
FatalMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1999339904099 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 1999.