A607 crash in Melton on 14 October 2001 at 11:40 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A607 in Melton at 11:40 on Sunday 14 October 2001. The 73-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 2001
- Sunday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.74915, longitude -0.92631, in the LE14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Frisby-on-the-Wreake, Melton, LE14 2TR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001330108092
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 607
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- 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 14 June 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A607 in Melton, 14 June 1989
At the same spotRef 19893389M0145
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A607 in Melton, 25 October 1994
At the same spotRef 1994339408083
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 17 September 2012
At the same spotRef 2012331205946
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 13 October 2025
5 m awayRef 2025332500978
Fatal
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the A607 in Melton, 10 July 2011
10 m awayRef 2011331103788
Slight
Car crash on the A607 in Melton, 28 October 1979
10 m awayRef 19793379E0837
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 2001330108092 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 2001.