Unclassified road crash in Melton LE14 on 28 November 1985 at 08:40 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Melton at 08:40 on Thursday 28 November 1985. The 41-year-old female driver, a 12-year-old male passenger and a 10-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 1985
- Thursday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.75278, longitude -0.96772, in the LE14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19853385E0959
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1993.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 30 September 1993
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Slight
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 14 March 1986
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 22 November 1997
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, 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 19853385E0959 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 1985.