A606 crash in Melton on 19 November 2011 at 16:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A606 in Melton at 16:30 on Saturday 19 November 2011. The 41-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2011
- Saturday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Honda CBR1100XX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77602, longitude -0.8957, in the LE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Melton Mowbray. It is one of the crashes that make up the Melton Egerton, Melton, LE13 0PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011331106514
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A606 in Melton, 21 April 1999
10 m awayRef 1999339903088
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A606 in Melton, 1 November 2004
10 m awayRef 2004330408359
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A606 in Melton, 30 September 1995
28 m awayRef 1995339506731
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Melton, 17 July 2011
30 m awayRef 2011331103919
Slight
MG HS crash on the A606 in Melton, 15 January 2025
36 m awayRef 2025332500066
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A606 in Melton, 10 December 2018
49 m awayRef 2018331801363
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR1100XX
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,137 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 41, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR1100XX)
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 2011331106514 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 2011.