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A46 crash in Charnwood on 28 November 1981 at 07:00 involving a car

A car crashed on the A46 in Charnwood at 07:00 on Saturday 28 November 1981. A 57-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
28 Nov 1981
Saturday, 07:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.71495, longitude -1.07905, in the LE7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19813381E0964
Council area
Charnwood
Police force
Leicestershire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
46
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 January 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 57, 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 19813381E0964 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Charnwood road accident statistics for 1981.