Serious A1121 crash in Boston on 12 December 1986 at 08:30 involving a lorry
A lorry and two cars were involved in a crash on the A1121 in Boston at 08:30 on Friday 12 December 1986. The 38-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and the 50-year-old female driver of vehicle 3 were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy one-way street or slip road with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 1986
- Friday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Lorry and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198632A136286
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1121
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 198632A136286 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Boston road accident statistics for 1986.