A606 crash in Melton on 29 August 2014 at 16:05 involving a Ford Mondeo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 2014
- Friday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.7716, longitude -0.89325, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014331401604
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A606 in Melton, 31 October 2012
11 m awayRef 2012331206265
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A606 in Melton, 7 March 2018
27 m awayRef 2018331800189
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A606 in Melton, 1 May 2023
29 m awayRef 2023332300305
Slight
Honda VF750F crash on the A606 in Melton, 24 August 1991
31 m awayRef 1991339106004
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A606 in Melton, 26 December 2006
32 m awayRef 2006330609399
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A606 in Melton, 2 March 1999
32 m awayRef 1999339901698
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 87 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
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 2014331401604 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.