C road crash in Melton LE14 on 31 December 1993 at 09:30 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 and a lorry were involved in a crash on a C road in Melton at 09:30 on Friday 31 December 1993. The 40-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 309 and a 5-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 309 were 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
- 31 Dec 1993
- Friday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 309 and lorry
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.80453, longitude -0.95418, in the LE14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993339309681
- 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
- Frost or ice
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
- 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 1993339309681 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 1993.