Unclassified road crash in West Lindsey DN21 on 20 January 1985 at 04:05 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey at 04:05 on Sunday 20 January 1985. The 36-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 1985
- Sunday, 04:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39813, longitude -0.75936, in the DN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gainsborough.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198532D506385
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 February 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 11 February 1980
42 m awayRef 198032D021980
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Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 18 May 1982
54 m awayRef 198232D074482
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 8 April 1994
58 m awayRef 199432E001704
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 9 September 1987
63 m awayRef 198732E076987
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 8 September 2025
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Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 13 March 1988
70 m awayRef 198832E028188
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, 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 198532D506385 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 1985.