A606 crash in Melton on 4 February 2015 at 13:25 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 and a car were involved in a crash on the A606 in Melton at 13:25 on Wednesday 4 February 2015. The 35-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 207 and the 46-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 2015
- Wednesday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 207 and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.80732, longitude -0.93484, in the LE14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Dalby, Melton, LE14 3JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Melton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331500136
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 1998.
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A606 in Melton, 10 December 1998
1 m awayRef 1998339809740
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A606 in Melton, 29 May 1998
1 m awayRef 1998339804043
Slight
Seat Arosa crash on the A606 in Melton, 30 September 2010
1 m awayRef 2010331005581
Slight
Car crash on the A606 in Melton, 23 September 1980
1 m awayRef 19803380E0801
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A606 in Melton, 3 April 1998
1 m awayRef 1998339802540
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A606 in Melton, 22 October 1994
1 m awayRef 1994339407955
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- 46 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2015331500136 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 2015.