C road crash in Melton LE14 on 14 August 2014 at 13:00 involving a Renault Master van
A Renault Master van and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Melton at 13:00 on Thursday 14 August 2014. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2014
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Master and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76517, longitude -0.75725, in the LE14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014331401469
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2014.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Master
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Master)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2014331401469 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.