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A158 crash in East Lindsey on 1 December 1988 at 16:20 involving a car

A car crashed on the A158 in East Lindsey at 16:20 on Thursday 1 December 1988. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
1 Dec 1988
Thursday, 16:20
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.20847, longitude -0.12185, in the LN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Horncastle.

Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198832C130488
Council area
East Lindsey
Police force
Lincolnshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
158
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
1191

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
Wet or damp
Special conditions at the site
Roadworks
Carriageway hazards
Roadworks

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 2010.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bollard or refuge
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    25 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 25, 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 198832C130488 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Lindsey road accident statistics for 1988.