B5380 crash in Blaby on 13 February 2001 at 18:00 involving a Gilera Runner 125 motorcycle
A Gilera Runner 125 motorcycle and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the B5380 in Blaby at 18:00 on Tuesday 13 February 2001. The 20-year-old male rider of the Gilera Runner 125 motorcycle 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 private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Feb 2001
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Gilera Runner 125 and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6279, longitude -1.2032, in the LE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leicester Forest & Lubbesthorpe, Blaby, LE3 3GQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001330101661
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5380
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2015.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B5380 in Blaby, 17 December 2015
11 m awayRef 2015331505808
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B5380 in Blaby, 5 October 1996
22 m awayRef 1996339607255
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Blaby, 26 September 1985
22 m awayRef 19853385S0871
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 7 October 1989
22 m awayRef 19893389B0360
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B5380 in Blaby, 3 December 2002
22 m awayRef 2002330209835
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5380 in Blaby, 10 October 1999
58 m awayRef 1999339907807
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Gilera Runner 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Gilera Runner 125)
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 2001330101661 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 2001.