Serious B676 crash in Melton on 22 October 2014 at 11:15 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Oct 2014
- Wednesday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.78865, longitude -0.72904, in the LE14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014331401952
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 676
- 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2001.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B676 in Melton, 1 February 2001
17 m awayRef 2001330100984
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B676 in Melton, 3 June 2011
37 m awayRef 2011331103277
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B676 in Melton, 30 April 1994
58 m awayRef 1994339403423
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B676 in Melton, 10 January 2003
68 m awayRef 2003330300286
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 25 July 1996
71 m awayRef 1996339605453
Serious
Aprilia crash on the B676 in Melton, 25 April 2000
79 m awayRef 2000330003168
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2014331401952 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.