A607 crash in Melton on 21 April 2016 at 17:00 involving a Mazda 2
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2016
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 2 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.75238, longitude -0.94351, in the LE14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Frisby-on-the-Wreake, Melton, LE14 2TR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331600662
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2025.
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A607 in Melton, 14 May 2025
3 m awayRef 2025332500467
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Melton, 16 July 2001
4 m awayRef 2001330105554
Serious
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A607 in Melton, 6 February 1990
4 m awayRef 1990339001014
Slight
Lorry crash on the A607 in Melton, 9 October 2015
5 m awayRef 2015331501726
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A607 in Melton, 31 August 1988
6 m awayRef 19883388M0230
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A607 in Melton, 14 November 2000
6 m awayRef 2000330008896
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2016331600662 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 2016.