Unclassified road crash in Melton LE13 on 2 August 1986 at 19:00 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Melton at 19:00 on Saturday 2 August 1986. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was 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 Aug 1986
- Saturday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.75207, longitude -0.88891, in the LE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melton Mowbray.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19863386E0633
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 1996.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 10 August 1996
10 m awayRef 1996339605821
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 10 January 1991
20 m awayRef 1991339100405
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 17 October 1988
32 m awayRef 19883388M0294
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 7 November 1994
50 m awayRef 1994339408556
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 18 May 2021
50 m awayRef 2021332100320
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 18 April 1987
60 m awayRef 19873387E0266
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 19863386E0633 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 1986.