Serious C road crash in Leicester LE3 on 22 March 2008 at 20:45 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Leicester at 20:45 on Saturday 22 March 2008. The 17-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Mar 2008
- Saturday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64169, longitude -1.18211, in the LE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Western, Leicester, LE3 9PF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008330801942
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1996.
Slight
Renault 21 crash on a C road in Leicester, 5 October 1996
At the same spotRef 1996339607301
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Leicester, 2 November 2008
At the same spotRef 2008330807419
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Leicester, 27 February 2011
At the same spotRef 2011331101137
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Leicester, 30 September 1981
10 m awayRef 19813381E0779
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Leicester, 13 August 1990
10 m awayRef 1990339005717
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Leicester, 6 January 2022
11 m awayRef 2022332200012
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 17, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2008330801942 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 2008.