C road crash in Melton LE14 on 23 November 1987 at 07:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Melton at 07:50 on Monday 23 November 1987. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Nov 1987
- Monday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.75223, longitude -0.73497, in the LE14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19873387E1007
- 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
- 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
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (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 19873387E1007 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.