C road crash in Leicester LE3 on 29 December 2007 at 23:57 involving a Honda C90 motorcycle
A car and a Honda C90 motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Leicester at 23:57 on Saturday 29 December 2007. The 16-year-old male rider of the Honda C90 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2007
- Saturday, 23:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda C90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63393, longitude -1.15255, in the LE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westcotes, Leicester, LE3 0BR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007330709186
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 47
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Leicester, 15 July 1988
At the same spotRef 19883388A0281
Slight
Metrocab Metrocab crash on the A47 in Leicester, 21 September 2003
At the same spotRef 2003330307116
Serious
Austin Allegro crash on the A47 in Leicester, 27 January 1992
At the same spotRef 1992339200678
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A47 in Leicester, 5 February 2000
At the same spotRef 2000330001015
Serious
Car crash on the A47 in Leicester, 22 February 1986
At the same spotRef 19863386C0073
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A47 in Leicester, 20 June 2009
At the same spotRef 2009330903696
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
Vehicle 2: Honda C90
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 85 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda C90)
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 2007330709186 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Leicester road accident statistics for 2007.