Serious C road crash in Melton LE13 on 25 July 2020 at 23:34 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Melton at 23:34 on Saturday 25 July 2020. The 22-year-old male driver and a 23-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jul 2020
- Saturday, 23:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.7697, longitude -0.88787, in the LE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melton Mowbray. It is one of the crashes that make up the Melton Egerton, Melton, LE13 0PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020332000447
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 July 1999.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Melton, 30 July 1999
At the same spotRef 1999339905823
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on a C road in Melton, 25 August 2001
20 m awayRef 2001330106617
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Melton, 2 December 1995
20 m awayRef 1995339508772
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Melton, 9 December 1997
20 m awayRef 1997339709482
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on a C road in Melton, 15 May 2007
20 m awayRef 2007330703286
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 19 June 1981
40 m awayRef 19813381E0475
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2020332000447 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.