Unclassified road crash in Melton LE13 on 14 September 2015 at 10:00 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Melton at 10:00 on Monday 14 September 2015. A 79-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 2015
- Monday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76558, longitude -0.88482, 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 Warwick, Melton, LE13 0TP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331501448
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2014.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 12 December 2014
4 m awayRef 2014331402352
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 4 November 2016
18 m awayRef 2016331601812
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 1 October 2005
18 m awayRef 2005330507352
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 3 December 1987
27 m awayRef 19873387E1020
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 21 January 1993
27 m awayRef 1993339300549
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 29 October 1988
27 m awayRef 19883388M0318
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 79, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2015331501448 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.