A1 crash in South Kesteven on 15 July 1981 at 02:58 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the A1 in South Kesteven at 02:58 on Wednesday 15 July 1981. The 49-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 1981
- Wednesday, 02:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.89586, longitude -0.65765, in the NG31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198132B075381
- Council area
- South Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 16 April 1979
At the same spotRef 197932B038479
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 15 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198732B039087
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 4 December 2025
67 m awayRef 2025320710676
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 20 December 1996
92 m awayRef 199632B012666
Slight
Lexus IS250 crash on an unclassified road in South Kesteven, 21 September 2014
99 m awayRef 2014320045195
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 1 June 1979
100 m awayRef 197932B057479
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 198132B075381 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Kesteven road accident statistics for 1981.