A17 crash in Boston on 31 March 1995 at 08:55 involving a Rover Montego
A Rover Montego and a Peugeot 405 were involved in a crash on the A17 in Boston at 08:55 on Friday 31 March 1995. The 59-year-old male driver of the Rover Montego and the 60-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 405 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 1995
- Friday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Montego and Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97055, longitude -0.18922, in the PE20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199532A002335
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 17
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1121
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 1997.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A17 in Boston, 15 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199732B003687
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A17 in Boston, 20 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199732A010557
Serious
Car crash on the A17 in Boston, 12 December 1980
At the same spotRef 198032A135080
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A17 in Boston, 15 June 1997
At the same spotRef 199732A004837
Serious
Ford crash on the A17 in Boston, 2 March 1996
At the same spotRef 199632A001756
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A17 in Boston, 16 July 2017
12 m awayRef 2017320303390
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Montego
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Montego)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 405)
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 199532A002335 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 1995.