C road crash in Melton LE14 on 21 March 2017 at 19:50 involving a Hyundai Coupe
A Hyundai Coupe crashed on a C road in Melton at 19:50 on Tuesday 21 March 2017. The 47-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2017
- Tuesday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai Coupe
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.81287, longitude -0.98334, 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
- 2017331700362
- 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
- 40 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 39 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 10 December 1979
39 m awayRef 19793379E0976
Slight
Austin Montego crash on a C road in Melton, 15 October 1990
100 m awayRef 1990339007446
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 18 September 1981
147 m awayRef 19813381E0740
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 8 August 1987
169 m awayRef 19873387E0611
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 8 September 1986
169 m awayRef 19863386E0732
Slight
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174 m awayRef 2022332200516
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Coupe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,975 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai Coupe)
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 2017331700362 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 2017.