A607 crash in North Kesteven on 5 August 1985 at 13:05 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A607 in North Kesteven at 13:05 on Monday 5 August 1985. The 8-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 1985
- Monday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.10554, longitude -0.52416, in the LN5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198532E068785
- Council area
- North Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 607
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2008.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A607 in North Kesteven, 17 December 2008
63 m awayRef 200832D379008
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A607 in North Kesteven, 13 September 2002
64 m awayRef 200232D132402
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A607 in North Kesteven, 11 June 2012
73 m awayRef 201232N154712
Slight
Car crash on the A607 in North Kesteven, 20 February 2003
73 m awayRef 200332D030303
Slight
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on an unclassified road in North Kesteven, 6 February 2025
77 m awayRef 2025320082052
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A607 in North Kesteven, 19 March 2010
82 m awayRef 201032D079810
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 8, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198532E068785 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.