C road crash in Melton LE13 on 15 August 2016 at 15:40 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Melton at 15:40 on Monday 15 August 2016. The 40-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
- 15 Aug 2016
- Monday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77552, longitude -0.90965, in the LE13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331601378
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 2001.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 3 January 2001
10 m awayRef 2001330100014
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 24 September 1989
22 m awayRef 19893389M0269
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 25 December 2020
31 m awayRef 2020332001000
Serious
Mercedes ML Class crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 8 December 2016
60 m awayRef 2016331602064
Slight
Ford Capri crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 3 January 1991
63 m awayRef 1991339100181
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 20 August 1997
73 m awayRef 1997339705993
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- 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
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2016331601378 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.