C road crash in Melton LE14 on 31 December 2007 at 20:55 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on a C road in Melton at 20:55 on Monday 31 December 2007. All five casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2007
- Monday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.80896, longitude -0.88003, in the LE14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007330709233
- 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
- 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, 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- 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 2007330709233 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 2007.