Unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 6 March 1987 at 23:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Boston at 23:00 on Friday 6 March 1987. The 37-year-old female driver and a 30-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 1987
- Friday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96916, longitude -0.04483, in the PE21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198732A024687
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198732A024687 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 1987.