A158 crash in West Lindsey on 31 October 1985 at 16:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A158 in West Lindsey at 16:00 on Thursday 31 October 1985. The 74-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1985
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.26279, longitude -0.44828, in the LN2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198532E093785
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 158
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 1991.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A158 in West Lindsey, 15 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199132E058591
Slight
Car crash on the A158 in West Lindsey, 29 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198732E073987
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A158 in West Lindsey, 29 August 1993
At the same spotRef 199332E004763
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A158 in West Lindsey, 1 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199032E035790
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A158 in West Lindsey, 6 March 1979
At the same spotRef 197932D035779
Serious
Car crash on the A158 in West Lindsey, 10 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198632E059686
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 74, on vehicle 2 (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 198532E093785 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.