Unclassified road crash in Melton LE13 on 26 July 1995 at 23:30 involving a Jaguar Sovereign
A Jaguar Sovereign hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Melton at 23:30 on Wednesday 26 July 1995. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 1995
- Wednesday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jaguar Sovereign
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.75756, longitude -0.89959, 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
- 1995339505060
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar Sovereign
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,980 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Jaguar Sovereign)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1995339505060 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 1995.