A426 crash in Blaby on 3 March 2005 at 19:01 involving a Cagiva Mito motorcycle
A car and a Cagiva Mito motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A426 in Blaby at 19:01 on Thursday 3 March 2005. The 23-year-old male rider of the Cagiva Mito motorcycle 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
- 3 Mar 2005
- Thursday, 19:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Cagiva Mito
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58572, longitude -1.16175, in the LE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Glen Parva, Blaby, LE2 9PU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005330501698
- 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
- 426
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 1994.
Slight
Car crash on the A426 in Blaby, 13 November 1994
At the same spotRef 1994339408772
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A426 in Blaby, 2 May 1985
At the same spotRef 19853385S0336
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A426 in Blaby, 12 April 1994
At the same spotRef 1994339402949
Serious
Car crash on the A426 in Blaby, 7 November 1980
At the same spotRef 19803380S0978
Slight
Car crash on the A426 in Blaby, 18 June 1981
At the same spotRef 19813381S0551
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A426 in Blaby, 23 December 2005
At the same spotRef 2005330510011
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Cagiva Mito
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Cagiva Mito)
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 2005330501698 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 2005.