C road crash in Melton LE14 on 24 September 2015 at 18:00 involving a Renault Espace
A Renault Espace crashed on a C road in Melton at 18:00 on Thursday 24 September 2015. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 2015
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Espace
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.87754, longitude -0.8724, 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
- 2015331502173
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 95 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 December 1988.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 16 December 1988
95 m awayRef 19883388M0360
Serious
John Deere crash on a C road in Melton, 6 August 2018
301 m awayRef 2018331801000
Fatal
Honda VFR 1200 crash on a C road in Melton, 3 March 2025
302 m awayRef 2025332500203
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 24 August 1989
314 m awayRef 19893389M0228
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Melton, 14 April 2007
328 m awayRef 2007330702515
Slight
Skoda 120 crash on a C road in Melton, 15 November 1991
331 m awayRef 1991339108246
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Espace
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Espace)
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 2015331502173 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.