Fatal unclassified road crash in Melton LE13 on 25 August 2018 at 07:52 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on an unclassified road in Melton at 07:52 on Saturday 25 August 2018. The 37-year-old male driver was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 25 Aug 2018
- Saturday, 07:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.78228, longitude -0.8639, in the LE13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018331800816
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a fatal crash on 8 March 2007.
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 8 March 2007
16 m awayRef 2007330701694
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 26 October 1981
16 m awayRef 19813381E0882
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 4 September 2012
35 m awayRef 2012331205855
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 2 October 1993
145 m awayRef 1993339306894
Slight
Austin Morris crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 13 January 1990
155 m awayRef 1990339000453
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 7 November 1984
165 m awayRef 19843384E1043
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018331800816 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 2018.