A606 crash in Melton on 19 July 1985 at 13:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A606 in Melton at 13:45 on Friday 19 July 1985. The 41-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and a 3-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 1985
- Friday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.81821, longitude -0.95534, in the LE14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19853385E0532
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 606
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 1991.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A606 in Melton, 4 January 1991
14 m awayRef 1991339100228
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Melton, 5 January 1991
14 m awayRef 1991339100339
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A606 in Melton, 14 March 2015
22 m awayRef 2015331500306
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A606 in Melton, 31 January 1982
22 m awayRef 19823382E0078
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A606 in Melton, 10 October 2002
50 m awayRef 2002330207769
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A606 in Melton, 13 June 2001
86 m awayRef 2001330104763
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 19853385E0532 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 1985.