C road crash in Melton LE14 on 17 June 1979 at 00:30 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Melton at 00:30 on Sunday 17 June 1979. A 16-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 1979
- Sunday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.75657, longitude -0.73662, 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
- 19793379E0461
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 June 1982.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Melton, 17 June 1982
36 m awayRef 19823382E0481
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Melton, 9 November 1990
36 m awayRef 1990339008378
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Melton, 17 April 2004
158 m awayRef 2004330402818
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 1 February 1986
216 m awayRef 19863386E0088
Slight
Scania crash on a C road in Melton, 19 December 2011
275 m awayRef 2011331107158
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Melton, 9 May 1984
345 m awayRef 19843384E0374
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 19793379E0461 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.