C road crash in Rutland LE15 on 3 December 1981 at 19:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Rutland at 19:10 on Thursday 3 December 1981. The 18-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67973, longitude -0.72256, in the LE15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rutland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19813381E0986
- Council area
- Rutland
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A606 in Rutland, 12 June 2016
12 m awayRef 2016331600992
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A606 in Rutland, 2 August 2012
16 m awayRef 2012331205669
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A606 in Rutland, 9 August 2010
22 m awayRef 2010331004481
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Rutland, 13 November 1981
40 m awayRef 19813381E0916
Serious
Mercedes 200 crash on a C road in Rutland, 29 June 2012
80 m awayRef 2012331205482
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Rutland, 16 May 2016
136 m awayRef 2016331605058
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, 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 19813381E0986 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rutland road accident statistics for 1981.