C road crash in Melton LE14 on 4 November 1980 at 16:29 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Melton at 16:29 on Tuesday 4 November 1980. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 1980
- Tuesday, 16:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.812, longitude -0.98605, 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
- 19803380E0950
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 24 August 1986.
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 24 August 1986
10 m awayRef 19863386E0690
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on a C road in Melton, 27 June 2022
32 m awayRef 2022332200516
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 8 September 1986
36 m awayRef 19863386E0732
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 8 August 1987
36 m awayRef 19873387E0611
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 18 September 1981
58 m awayRef 19813381E0740
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Melton, 2 December 2022
188 m awayRef 2022332201045
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 19803380E0950 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 1980.