C road crash in Melton NG13 on 11 December 1997 at 11:30 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 crashed on a C road in Melton at 11:30 on Thursday 11 December 1997. The 37-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 1997
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90914, longitude -0.79806, in the NG13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997339709461
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
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 1997339709461 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 1997.