A16 crash in East Lindsey on 4 May 1985 at 09:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A16 in East Lindsey at 09:00 on Saturday 4 May 1985. An 18-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 1985
- Saturday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04997, longitude 0.01553, in the PE22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198532A047785
- Council area
- East Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 16
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 67 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 December 2003.
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 6 December 2003
67 m awayRef 200332C182403
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 26 January 2025
67 m awayRef 2025320050606
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 24 December 2007
72 m awayRef 200732C417907
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 19 October 2025
92 m awayRef 2025320613583
Slight
Car crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 23 October 1988
100 m awayRef 198832A129388
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 14 June 1989
100 m awayRef 198932A045889
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198532A047785 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 1985.