Serious A16 crash in South Kesteven on 25 November 1986 at 21:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A16 in South Kesteven at 21:00 on Tuesday 25 November 1986. The 31-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Nov 1986
- Tuesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69126, longitude -0.27035, in the PE11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198632B145686
- Council area
- South Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 16
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A16 in South Kesteven, 14 November 1987
At the same spotRef 198732B130787
Slight
Lorry crash on the A16 in South Kesteven, 15 February 1988
At the same spotRef 198832B021588
Slight
Car crash on the A16 in South Kesteven, 15 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198732B053387
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B1525 in South Kesteven, 28 January 2017
6 m awayRef 2017320039737
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B1525 in South Kesteven, 9 September 2025
7 m awayRef 2025320532444
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1525 in South Kesteven, 28 March 2025
7 m awayRef 2025320179622
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198632B145686 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Kesteven road accident statistics for 1986.