Serious unclassified road crash in Melton LE14 on 8 December 2005 at 16:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Melton at 16:10 on Thursday 8 December 2005. A 52-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 2005
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.74683, longitude -0.83318, in the LE14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005330509533
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 190 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2004.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 7 July 2004
190 m awayRef 2004330405169
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 13 August 1997
200 m awayRef 1997339705789
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 31 October 1996
290 m awayRef 1996339608137
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 9 May 1980
311 m awayRef 19803380E0361
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 20 February 2003
500 m awayRef 2003330302370
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 10 June 1998
810 m awayRef 1998339804398
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 2005330509533 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 2005.