Serious C road crash in Melton LE15 on 14 September 2015 at 17:50 involving a Mini Paceman
A Mini Paceman and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on a C road in Melton at 17:50 on Monday 14 September 2015. The 50-year-old female driver of the Mini Paceman was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Sep 2015
- Monday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Paceman and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68077, longitude -0.82133, in the LE15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331501454
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 1997.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Melton, 20 February 1997
2 m awayRef 1997339701327
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 6 December 1980
9 m awayRef 19803380E1050
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 1 November 1985
22 m awayRef 19853385E0845
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 11 April 1986
294 m awayRef 19863386E0294
Serious
Honda crash on a C road in Melton, 14 March 1990
350 m awayRef 1990339002054
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Melton, 26 October 2024
381 m awayRef 2024332401013
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Paceman
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Paceman)
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 2015331501454 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.