A57 crash in West Lindsey on 3 May 1996 at 13:53 involving a Reliant Rialto
A Reliant Rialto crashed on the A57 in West Lindsey at 13:53 on Friday 3 May 1996. The 76-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 1996
- Friday, 13:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Reliant Rialto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.26446, longitude -0.65963, in the LN1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199632E001856
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 57
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 24 July 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A57 in West Lindsey, 24 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198932E045589
Serious
Car crash on the A57 in West Lindsey, 7 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198832E003788
Serious
Car crash on the A57 in West Lindsey, 8 November 1980
At the same spotRef 198032D163080
Slight
Car crash on the A57 in West Lindsey, 21 August 1983
At the same spotRef 198332D124483
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A57 in West Lindsey, 14 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199732E003447
Slight
Car crash on the A57 in West Lindsey, 1 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198732E064787
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Reliant Rialto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 848 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Reliant Rialto)
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 199632E001856 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 1996.