C road crash in Melton LE14 on 12 February 1999 at 18:50 involving a Honda NS125R motorcycle
A Honda NS125R motorcycle crashed on a C road in Melton at 18:50 on Friday 12 February 1999. The 25-year-old male rider and a 26-year-old female 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
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 1999
- Friday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda NS125R
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.83225, longitude -0.83431, in the LE14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999339901188
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2008.
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda NS125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda NS125R)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda NS125R)
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 1999339901188 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 1999.