Unclassified road crash in Melton LE13 on 3 May 1979 at 11:00 involving a motorcycle
A vehicle and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Melton at 11:00 on Thursday 3 May 1979. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 1979
- Thursday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76982, longitude -0.87438, in the LE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melton Mowbray.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19793379E0328
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 2 September 1981
64 m awayRef 19813381E0685
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 26 July 1981
78 m awayRef 19813381E0589
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 17 August 2021
128 m awayRef 2021332100624
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 9 November 1996
133 m awayRef 1996339608380
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 23 December 1999
136 m awayRef 1999339910199
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A607 in Melton, 24 December 1979
139 m awayRef 19793379E1040
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, 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 19793379E0328 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Melton road accident statistics for 1979.