A15 crash in North Kesteven on 18 December 1985 at 17:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A15 in North Kesteven at 17:15 on Wednesday 18 December 1985. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1985
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95783, longitude -0.43242, in the NG34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198532B158585
- Council area
- North Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 15
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 90 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 2010.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A15 in North Kesteven, 20 November 2010
90 m awayRef 201032D361510
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A15 in North Kesteven, 11 December 2002
90 m awayRef 200232B201002
Slight
Leyland crash on the A15 in North Kesteven, 12 February 2004
90 m awayRef 200432B021304
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in North Kesteven, 2 September 2025
99 m awayRef 2025320516760
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A15 in North Kesteven, 23 December 1997
100 m awayRef 199732B012117
Serious
Renault crash on the A15 in North Kesteven, 18 June 2001
112 m awayRef 200132B078501
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 198532B158585 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Kesteven road accident statistics for 1985.