Serious A6006 crash in Melton on 3 November 1996 at 21:45 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on the A6006 in Melton at 21:45 on Sunday 3 November 1996. A 20-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 20-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Nov 1996
- Sunday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77512, longitude -0.99343, in the LE14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996339608169
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6006
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 2004.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A6006 in Melton, 14 March 2004
10 m awayRef 2004330401997
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A6006 in Melton, 8 February 2012
22 m awayRef 2012331200718
Slight
Car crash on the A6006 in Melton, 20 November 1981
50 m awayRef 19813381E0942
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A6006 in Melton, 13 December 2014
57 m awayRef 2014331405215
Serious
Car crash on the A6006 in Melton, 8 April 1980
89 m awayRef 19803380E0265
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A6006 in Melton, 14 August 2014
121 m awayRef 2014331405114
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1996339608169 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.