Unclassified road crash in Melton LE14 on 14 December 2015 at 17:40 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Melton at 17:40 on Monday 14 December 2015. The 45-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2015
- Monday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.82356, longitude -0.8831, in the LE14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331502093
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 68 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 1987.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Melton, 4 August 1987
68 m awayRef 19873387E0598
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Melton, 10 September 1982
68 m awayRef 19823382E0751
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 18 October 1981
73 m awayRef 19813381E0830
Fatal
Van crash on a C road in Melton, 11 July 1981
74 m awayRef 19813381E0542
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 9 November 1987
176 m awayRef 19873387E0921
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Melton, 27 March 1997
216 m awayRef 1997339702413
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 2015331502093 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.