Unclassified road crash in Melton LE13 on 3 January 1991 at 09:00 involving a Ford Capri
A Ford Capri crashed on an unclassified road in Melton at 09:00 on Thursday 3 January 1991. The 39-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jan 1991
- Thursday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Capri
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77573, longitude -0.91055, in the LE13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991339100181
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Frost or ice
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Capri
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Capri)
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 1991339100181 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 1991.