Serious unclassified road crash in Melton LE13 on 15 January 2014 at 15:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Melton at 15:30 on Wednesday 15 January 2014. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 2014
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77742, longitude -0.8864, in the LE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melton Mowbray. It is one of the crashes that make up the Melton Egerton, Melton, LE13 0PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014331400013
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2017.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Melton, 18 January 2017
5 m awayRef 2017331700048
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on a C road in Melton, 13 May 2015
6 m awayRef 2015331500893
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 21 July 1989
7 m awayRef 19893389M0186
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Melton, 3 April 1995
7 m awayRef 1995339502409
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Melton, 25 October 1983
7 m awayRef 19833383E0864
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Melton, 5 February 2024
11 m awayRef 2024332400123
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 14, 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 2014331400013 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 2014.