C road crash in Melton LE13 on 2 October 1987 at 17:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Melton at 17:10 on Friday 2 October 1987. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 64-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 1987
- Friday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77004, longitude -0.88786, in the LE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melton Mowbray.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19873387E0782
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2010.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Melton, 24 April 2010
At the same spotRef 2010331002318
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Melton, 5 May 2016
6 m awayRef 2016331600741
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Melton, 16 January 1984
10 m awayRef 19843384E0036
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 14 November 1980
10 m awayRef 19803380E0990
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 17 March 1984
10 m awayRef 19843384E0231
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on a C road in Melton, 15 May 2007
20 m awayRef 2007330703286
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 19873387E0782 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 1987.