A46 crash in West Lindsey on 24 October 1986 at 13:24 involving a car
A car crashed on the A46 in West Lindsey at 13:24 on Friday 24 October 1986. The 58-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 1986
- Friday, 13:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.34572, longitude -0.3972, in the LN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198632E091986
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 1988.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 11 July 1988
At the same spotRef 198832E061688
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 7 February 2013
46 m awayRef 201332L054113
Slight
Hyundai i30 crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 17 September 2025
118 m awayRef 2025320548908
Fatal
Car crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 20 October 1984
141 m awayRef 198432D170384
Slight
Car crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 25 March 1985
141 m awayRef 198532D525185
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 17 July 1985
141 m awayRef 198532E063385
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198632E091986 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 1986.