Serious unclassified road crash in Melton LE13 on 6 December 2015 at 13:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Melton at 13:50 on Sunday 6 December 2015. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Dec 2015
- Sunday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76885, longitude -0.88229, in the LE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melton Mowbray.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331502053
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 74 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 1994.
Slight
Rover Sterling crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 2 November 1994
74 m awayRef 1994339408424
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 30 June 1982
94 m awayRef 19823382E0526
Slight
Massey Ferguson crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 16 October 1992
135 m awayRef 1992339207353
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 25 January 1989
144 m awayRef 19893389M0018
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 12 July 1995
186 m awayRef 1995339504710
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 25 April 1994
195 m awayRef 1994339403274
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (engine size unknown), 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 2015331502053 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.