A607 crash in Melton on 7 November 2007 at 08:13 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and an ERF lorry were involved in a crash on the A607 in Melton at 08:13 on Wednesday 7 November 2007. The 31-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2007
- Wednesday, 08:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and ERF
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.74915, longitude -0.92646, 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
- 2007330707758
- Council area
- Melton
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 607
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2017.
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A607 in Melton, 6 March 2017
7 m awayRef 2017331700421
Serious
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the A607 in Melton, 21 October 2024
9 m awayRef 2024332401000
Slight
Car crash on the A607 in Melton, 14 June 1989
10 m awayRef 19893389M0145
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A607 in Melton, 1 February 2003
10 m awayRef 2003330300890
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A607 in Melton, 14 October 2001
10 m awayRef 2001330108092
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A607 in Melton, 25 October 1994
10 m awayRef 1994339408083
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: ERF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2007330707758 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 2007.