Serious A46 crash in North East Lincolnshire on 12 December 1992 at 04:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A46 in North East Lincolnshire at 04:00 on Saturday 12 December 1992. The 17-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 1992
- Saturday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.55362, longitude -0.05557, in the DN32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Grimsby.
Map of where the crash happened in North East Lincolnshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199216F041345
- Council area
- North East Lincolnshire
- Police force
- Humberside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 August 2008.
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Dennis crash on the A46 in North East Lincolnshire, 11 August 2008
At the same spotRef 2008160A03320
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Ford Transit crash on the A46 in North East Lincolnshire, 3 December 2004
10 m awayRef 2004160A05200
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BMW 3 Series crash on the A46 in North East Lincolnshire, 16 June 1994
10 m awayRef 199416A050291
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Bicycle crash on the A18 in North East Lincolnshire, 21 October 1982
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North East Lincolnshire, 20 August 1996
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Yamaha R crash on the A46 in North East Lincolnshire, 22 November 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199216F041345 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North East Lincolnshire road accident statistics for 1992.