A606 crash in Melton on 11 January 2014 at 15:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A606 in Melton at 15:30 on Saturday 11 January 2014. The 60-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and a 58-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jan 2014
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76902, longitude -0.89217, 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
- 2014331400032
- 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
- 606
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1996.
Slight
Car crash on the A606 in Melton, 30 September 1996
5 m awayRef 1996339607157
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A606 in Melton, 1 November 2012
19 m awayRef 2012331206321
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A606 in Melton, 3 December 2010
46 m awayRef 2010331007127
Slight
Car crash on the A606 in Melton, 9 February 1993
54 m awayRef 1993339301033
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A606 in Melton, 19 November 1997
54 m awayRef 1997339708870
Slight
Car crash on the A606 in Melton, 27 May 1981
60 m awayRef 19813381E0418
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2014331400032 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 2014.