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Serious A607 crash in Melton on 18 September 1986 at 15:45 involving a lorry

A lorry hit a pedestrian on the A607 in Melton at 15:45 on Thursday 18 September 1986. A 45-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
18 Sep 1986
Thursday, 15:45
Vehicles
1
Lorry
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76673, longitude -0.88973, in the LE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melton Mowbray.

Map of where the crash happened in Melton

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19863386E0750
Council area
Melton
Police force
Leicestershire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
607
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
606

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian phase at traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 January 1981.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    35 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 19863386E0750 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 1986.