Serious B1184 crash in East Lindsey on 23 June 1979 at 02:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1184 in East Lindsey at 02:15 on Saturday 23 June 1979. The 34-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Jun 1979
- Saturday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.016, longitude -0.10533, in the PE22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197932A062779
- Council area
- East Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1184
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 505 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 October 2009.
Serious
Optare crash on a C road in East Lindsey, 26 October 2009
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Lindsey, 17 September 1986
583 m awayRef 198632A095886
Serious
Jaguar S Type crash on a C road in East Lindsey, 28 March 2020
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Slight
Mini Countryman crash on the B1184 in East Lindsey, 24 March 2025
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Fatal
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B1184 in East Lindsey, 18 January 2008
705 m awayRef 200832C013108
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1184 in East Lindsey, 2 March 2011
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 197932A062779 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Lindsey road accident statistics for 1979.