Fatal A52 crash in Boston on 19 December 1986 at 17:45 involving a car
A car hit two pedestrians on the A52 in Boston at 17:45 on Friday 19 December 1986. A 74-year-old female pedestrian was killed and a 71-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 19 Dec 1986
- Friday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 killed, 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198632A140386
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 52
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1137
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
- Dry
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalFemale, aged 74, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198632A140386 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.