A606 crash in Melton on 21 July 1994 at 10:44 involving a Volvo 360
A Volvo 360 and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A606 in Melton at 10:44 on Thursday 21 July 1994. The 47-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 1994
- Thursday, 10:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo 360 and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77405, longitude -0.89428, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994339405642
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 606
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 2014.
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A606 in Melton, 11 December 2014
6 m awayRef 2014331402342
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A606 in Melton, 21 September 1984
10 m awayRef 19843384E0847
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A606 in Melton, 17 February 1994
14 m awayRef 1994339401365
Slight
BMW 6 Series crash on the A606 in Melton, 3 March 2000
14 m awayRef 2000330001733
Slight
Car crash on the A606 in Melton, 13 August 1983
20 m awayRef 19833383E0634
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A606 in Melton, 12 August 1992
32 m awayRef 1992339205359
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 360
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 1994339405642 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 1994.