Serious C road crash in Melton LE15 on 18 December 2005 at 16:06 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Melton at 16:06 on Sunday 18 December 2005. The 40-year-old male driver 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
- 18 Dec 2005
- Sunday, 16:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68084, longitude -0.79678, in the LE15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005330509840
- 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
- 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, 87 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2013.
Slight
Chevrolet Matiz crash on a C road in Melton, 28 February 2013
87 m awayRef 2013331300366
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Melton, 19 August 2000
133 m awayRef 2000330006219
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Melton, 30 November 2007
146 m awayRef 2007330708387
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Melton, 9 March 2004
289 m awayRef 2004330401986
Fatal
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 2 July 1981
466 m awayRef 19813381E0564
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 29 August 1993
470 m awayRef 1993339306019
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2005330509840 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.