C road crash in Melton NG13 on 5 October 2020 at 00:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Melton at 00:20 on Monday 5 October 2020. The 24-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 2020
- Monday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.87883, longitude -0.91673, 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
- 2020332000774
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 1983.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 19 June 1983
At the same spotRef 19833383E0453
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on a C road in Melton, 17 February 2000
22 m awayRef 2000330001456
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on a C road in Melton, 2 June 1998
89 m awayRef 1998339805150
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Rushcliffe, 18 March 1988
355 m awayRef 1988317Y20249
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 12 December 1983
389 m awayRef 19833383E1024
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 20 February 1984
407 m awayRef 19843384E0165
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020332000774 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.