Serious C road crash in Melton LE7 on 10 February 1981 at 08:25 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Melton at 08:25 on Tuesday 10 February 1981. The 23-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured and the 24-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Feb 1981
- Tuesday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67574, longitude -0.93818, in the LE7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19813381E0100
- 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
- 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
- Frost or ice
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2010.
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Slight
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 19813381E0100 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 1981.