Serious unclassified road crash in Blaby LE3 on 26 March 2017 at 14:38 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Blaby at 14:38 on Sunday 26 March 2017. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Mar 2017
- Sunday, 14:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6102, longitude -1.16883, in the LE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Braunstone Ravenhurst, Blaby, LE3 2GE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaby
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331700350
- Council area
- Blaby
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Footbridge or subway
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 1991.
Slight
Honda MTX125RW crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 20 November 1991
9 m awayRef 1991339108427
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 26 December 1999
12 m awayRef 1999339910197
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 28 August 1980
14 m awayRef 19803380S0732
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 23 September 1983
15 m awayRef 19833383S0825
Slight
Lorry crash on the A46 in Blaby, 6 August 1985
18 m awayRef 19853385S0663
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blaby, 17 December 1993
18 m awayRef 1993339309245
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 2017331700350 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 2017.