A606 crash in Melton on 14 April 2015 at 08:10 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A606 in Melton at 08:10 on Tuesday 14 April 2015. The 20-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Apr 2015
- Tuesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and Suzuki GSF 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77072, longitude -0.89318, 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
- 2015331500565
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 October 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A606 in Melton, 17 October 1982
At the same spotRef 19823382E0876
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A606 in Melton, 11 October 2006
At the same spotRef 2006330607319
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A606 in Melton, 17 October 2004
At the same spotRef 2004330407859
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A606 in Melton, 3 March 1998
At the same spotRef 1998339801690
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the A606 in Melton, 27 January 1994
At the same spotRef 1994339400737
Slight
Isuzu crash on the A606 in Melton, 22 September 2006
At the same spotRef 2006330606829
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSF 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSF 600)
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 2015331500565 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.