Serious C road crash in Melton NG13 on 17 May 2014 at 18:40 involving a Vauxhall Combo
A Vauxhall Combo crashed on a C road in Melton at 18:40 on Saturday 17 May 2014. The 47-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 May 2014
- Saturday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92293, longitude -0.80011, in the NG13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014331400935
- 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
- 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, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 1990.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Melton, 18 November 1990
25 m awayRef 1990339008532
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Melton, 13 July 1998
196 m awayRef 1998339805255
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 11 October 1979
306 m awayRef 19793379E0774
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 25 November 1979
446 m awayRef 19793379E0935
Slight
Ford KA crash on a C road in Melton, 3 October 2016
446 m awayRef 2016331601639
Slight
Renault 19 crash on a C road in Melton, 26 October 1996
561 m awayRef 1996339607856
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
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 2014331400935 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.