Serious unclassified road crash in Melton NG13 on 11 December 2020 at 17:18 involving a car
A vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Melton at 17:18 on Friday 11 December 2020. The 33-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Dec 2020
- Friday, 17:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.8988, longitude -0.8555, in the NG13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020332000964
- 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
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- 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, 326 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 June 1985.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 20 June 1985
326 m awayRef 19853385E0473
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Melton, 6 February 1981
375 m awayRef 19813381E0121
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on a C road in Melton, 1 December 2013
435 m awayRef 2013331302216
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Melton, 2 October 1985
567 m awayRef 19853385E0777
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on a C road in Melton, 30 August 2000
717 m awayRef 2000330006553
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 1 July 2012
889 m awayRef 2012331205477
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- 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 2020332000964 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.