Unclassified road crash in Melton LE13 on 6 December 2017 at 19:10 involving a Toyota Celica
A Toyota Celica hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Melton at 19:10 on Wednesday 6 December 2017. A 58-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2017
- Wednesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Celica
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76788, longitude -0.90183, in the LE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melton Mowbray.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017331701719
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Snow
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, 163 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 May 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A6006 in Melton, 27 May 1980
163 m awayRef 19803380E0412
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A6006 in Melton, 9 November 2017
164 m awayRef 2017331701370
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6006 in Melton, 7 March 1987
164 m awayRef 19873387E0151
Serious
Car crash on the A6006 in Melton, 5 March 1984
168 m awayRef 19843384E0196
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A6006 in Melton, 13 May 1989
170 m awayRef 19893389M0115
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A6006 in Melton, 14 December 2016
173 m awayRef 2016331602207
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Celica)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017331701719 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.