B6047 crash in Melton on 10 April 2015 at 19:30 involving a Suzuki GSF 650 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Apr 2015
- Friday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSF 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.74165, longitude -0.89189, in the LE13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331500512
- 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
- 6047
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 June 2009.
Serious
Kawasaki ZX900 crash on the B6047 in Melton, 23 June 2009
7 m awayRef 2009330903724
Serious
Car crash on the B6047 in Melton, 28 July 1982
38 m awayRef 19823382E0591
Serious
Car crash on the B6047 in Melton, 2 December 1983
42 m awayRef 19833383E1000
Slight
Car crash on the B6047 in Melton, 29 September 1980
42 m awayRef 19803380E0832
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6047 in Melton, 22 July 1979
42 m awayRef 19793379E0546
Slight
Seat Altea crash on the B6047 in Melton, 24 July 2007
48 m awayRef 2007330705178
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSF 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 656 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 650)
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 2015331500512 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 2015.