C road crash in Melton LE14 on 12 June 1979 at 10:30 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on a C road in Melton at 10:30 on Tuesday 12 June 1979. The 21-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 1979
- Tuesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.80916, longitude -0.87974, in the LE14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19793379E0447
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Melton, 27 September 1985
14 m awayRef 19853385E0735
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on a C road in Melton, 26 October 2005
14 m awayRef 2005330508082
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Melton, 31 December 2007
28 m awayRef 2007330709233
Serious
Peugeot Partner crash on a C road in Melton, 3 May 2018
32 m awayRef 2018331800633
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Melton, 26 January 2000
36 m awayRef 2000330000771
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 28 October 1982
36 m awayRef 19823382E0906
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19793379E0447 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.