A607 crash in Melton on 26 June 2002 at 08:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Citroen ZX were involved in a crash on the A607 in Melton at 08:35 on Wednesday 26 June 2002. The 35-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 2002
- Wednesday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Citroen ZX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.85256, longitude -0.76233, in the NG32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002330205013
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 1999.
Slight
Norton crash on the A607 in Melton, 13 June 1999
At the same spotRef 1999339904477
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A607 in Melton, 9 May 2012
18 m awayRef 2012331205073
Slight
Car crash on the A607 in Melton, 9 September 1984
22 m awayRef 19843384E0807
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A607 in Melton, 25 October 1990
112 m awayRef 1990339007799
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A607 in Melton, 24 June 2011
121 m awayRef 2011331103508
Slight
Morris Marina crash on the A607 in Melton, 9 August 1992
134 m awayRef 1992339205410
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen ZX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2002330205013 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 2002.