C road crash in Melton NG32 on 20 January 2016 at 20:45 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on a C road in Melton at 20:45 on Wednesday 20 January 2016. A 19-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2016
- Wednesday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.87947, longitude -0.81357, in the NG32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331600153
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 154 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 June 2015.
Fatal
Bicycle crash on a C road in Melton, 20 June 2015
154 m awayRef 2015331501113
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on a C road in Melton, 20 September 2017
398 m awayRef 2017331701162
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Melton, 20 June 2014
400 m awayRef 2014331401091
Fatal
Nissan 100 crash on a C road in Melton, 17 August 1995
400 m awayRef 1995339505560
Slight
MAN crash on a C road in Melton, 1 July 2014
400 m awayRef 2014331401197
Fatal
Bicycle crash on a C road in Melton, 16 May 1982
490 m awayRef 19823382E0378
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 2016331600153 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 2016.