A607 crash in Melton on 23 July 2012 at 12:30 involving a Ford Focus
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2012
- Monday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76678, longitude -0.88801, 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 Warwick, Melton, LE13 0TP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012331205628
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A607 in Melton, 20 September 2013
At the same spotRef 2013331301643
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A607 in Melton, 6 April 2012
At the same spotRef 2012331201880
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A607 in Melton, 31 August 2012
At the same spotRef 2012331205833
Serious
Bus crash on the A607 in Melton, 25 August 2007
5 m awayRef 2007330705868
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A607 in Melton, 24 July 1994
5 m awayRef 1994339405431
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A607 in Melton, 12 March 2000
5 m awayRef 2000330001946
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2012331205628 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 2012.