A1518 crash in North Kesteven on 5 December 1996 at 11:50 involving a Nissan Sunny
A Nissan Sunny and a Rover 100 Series were involved in a crash on the A1518 in North Kesteven at 11:50 on Thursday 5 December 1996. The 53-year-old male driver of the Rover 100 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 1996
- Thursday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Sunny and Rover 100 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.99525, longitude -0.40723, in the NG34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sleaford.
Map of where the crash happened in North Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199632B011996
- Council area
- North Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1518
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Kesteven, 28 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199832B002878
Serious
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in North Kesteven, 2 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199532B002105
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in North Kesteven, 14 December 2013
31 m awayRef 201332N481213
Slight
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37 m awayRef 2025320520349
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in North Kesteven, 4 February 2010
45 m awayRef 201032D033510
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in North Kesteven, 5 October 2013
46 m awayRef 201332N372813
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 100 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 100 Series)
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 199632B011996 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Kesteven road accident statistics for 1996.