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Fatal A52 crash in Boston on 14 November 1995 at 13:30 involving an All Wheel Drive TL 8-14 lorry

An All Wheel Drive TL 8-14 lorry hit a pedestrian on the A52 in Boston at 13:30 on Tuesday 14 November 1995. An 88-year-old male pedestrian was killed.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Fatal
Date
14 Nov 1995
Tuesday, 13:30
Vehicles
1
All Wheel Drive TL 8-14
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98719, longitude 0.00664, in the PE21 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Boston

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199532A009185
Council area
Boston
Police force
Lincolnshire
Highway authority
Lincolnshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
52
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Other 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, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 94 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 May 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: All Wheel Drive TL 8-14

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    50 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 4: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Male, aged 88, hit by vehicle 1 (All Wheel Drive TL 8-14)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 199532A009185 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.