Serious C road crash in Melton LE14 on 8 September 1986 at 13:29 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Melton at 13:29 on Monday 8 September 1986. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Sep 1986
- Monday, 13:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.81218, longitude -0.9856, in the LE14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19863386E0732
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 August 1987.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 8 August 1987
At the same spotRef 19873387E0611
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 18 September 1981
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Melton, 4 November 1980
36 m awayRef 19803380E0950
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 24 August 1986
45 m awayRef 19863386E0690
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on a C road in Melton, 21 March 2017
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 19863386E0732 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 1986.