Serious unclassified road crash in Melton LE13 on 2 July 1996 at 18:00 involving an MG Montego
An MG Montego hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Melton at 18:00 on Tuesday 2 July 1996. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Jul 1996
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG Montego
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.75239, longitude -0.88476, in the LE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melton Mowbray.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996339604872
- 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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 10 May 1982
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 3 June 1979
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Slight
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Slight
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130 m awayRef 1991339107168
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 12 May 1980
132 m awayRef 19803380E0368
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (MG Montego)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1996339604872 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 1996.