C road crash in Melton NG13 on 23 January 2020 at 08:20 involving a car
A car and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on a C road in Melton at 08:20 on Thursday 23 January 2020. The 70-year-old female driver of the bus or coach was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2020
- Thursday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90924, longitude -0.81054, in the NG13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020332000043
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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, 105 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 April 1990.
Serious
Peugeot 504 crash on a C road in Melton, 12 April 1990
105 m awayRef 1990339002894
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on a C road in Melton, 11 December 2005
280 m awayRef 2005330509663
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 21 February 2014
397 m awayRef 2014331400308
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on a C road in Melton, 14 February 2001
477 m awayRef 2001330101495
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Melton, 21 January 2007
477 m awayRef 2007330700466
Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on a C road in Melton, 10 November 2009
477 m awayRef 2009330906792
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 70, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Bus or coach)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020332000043 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 2020.