Serious C road crash in Blaby LE9 on 26 June 2009 at 17:20 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Blaby at 17:20 on Friday 26 June 2009. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jun 2009
- Friday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55303, longitude -1.19217, in the LE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cosby.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009330903818
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 1995.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Blaby, 20 November 1995
10 m awayRef 1995339508327
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Blaby, 11 December 1979
14 m awayRef 19793379S1149
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Blaby, 30 April 1987
22 m awayRef 19873387S0321
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 8 November 1984
42 m awayRef 19843384S1071
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Blaby, 27 January 1986
42 m awayRef 19863386S0105
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Blaby, 25 August 1983
57 m awayRef 19833383S0731
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- 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: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2009330903818 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 2009.