C road crash in Melton LE14 on 20 November 2017 at 19:56 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class crashed on a C road in Melton at 19:56 on Monday 20 November 2017. The 58-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2017
- Monday, 19:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76023, longitude -0.95611, in the LE14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Asfordby.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331701670
- 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
- 30 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
- Fine, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 2009.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 12 February 2009
8 m awayRef 2009330900966
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on a C road in Melton, 12 December 2022
9 m awayRef 2022332201072
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 12 September 1986
12 m awayRef 19863386E0744
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Melton, 3 November 1988
21 m awayRef 19883388M0323
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on a C road in Melton, 4 November 2023
25 m awayRef 2023332301089
Slight
Austin Mini crash on a C road in Melton, 13 August 1997
49 m awayRef 1997339705897
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2017331701670 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.