C road crash in Melton LE15 on 28 February 2013 at 20:09 involving a Chevrolet Matiz
A Chevrolet Matiz crashed on a C road in Melton at 20:09 on Thursday 28 February 2013. An 82-year-old female passenger was 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
- 28 Feb 2013
- Thursday, 20:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Chevrolet Matiz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68103, longitude -0.79803, in the LE15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013331300366
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2000.
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Melton, 19 August 2000
46 m awayRef 2000330006219
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Melton, 30 November 2007
59 m awayRef 2007330708387
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 18 December 2005
87 m awayRef 2005330509840
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Melton, 9 March 2004
368 m awayRef 2004330401986
Fatal
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 2 July 1981
387 m awayRef 19813381E0564
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 29 August 1993
530 m awayRef 1993339306019
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Chevrolet Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 87 years
- Engine capacity
- 995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Chevrolet Matiz)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2013331300366 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 2013.