Serious A606 crash in Melton on 26 October 1987 at 13:45 involving a van
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Oct 1987
- Monday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76428, longitude -0.88697, in the LE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melton Mowbray.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19873387E0875
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 606
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 1995.
Slight
Van crash on the A606 in Melton, 1 May 1995
At the same spotRef 1995339502993
Slight
Car crash on the A607 in Melton, 20 December 1981
At the same spotRef 19813381E1035
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A607 in Melton, 5 October 1979
At the same spotRef 19793379E0758
Slight
Ford crash on the A606 in Melton, 9 April 1997
At the same spotRef 1997339702524
Serious
Volvo crash on the A606 in Melton, 12 October 2010
At the same spotRef 2010331005899
Slight
Car crash on the A606 in Melton, 8 January 2016
9 m awayRef 2016331600020
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 43, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 19873387E0875 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 1987.