Unclassified road crash in Melton LE14 on 27 September 1997 at 20:30 involving a Rover Maestro van
A Rover Maestro van crashed on an unclassified road in Melton at 20:30 on Saturday 27 September 1997. The 27-year-old male driver 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
- 27 Sep 1997
- Saturday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Maestro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.87271, longitude -0.86043, in the LE14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997339707505
- 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
- Rural
- 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: Rover Maestro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Maestro)
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 1997339707505 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.