C road crash in Boston PE20 on 18 July 1997 at 19:45 involving a Citroen AX
A Citroen AX and a Ford Transit minibus were involved in a crash on a C road in Boston at 19:45 on Friday 18 July 1997. The 36-year-old female driver of the Citroen AX was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 1997
- Friday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen AX and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9477, longitude -0.16487, in the PE20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199732A005867
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
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The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 1998.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen AX)
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 199732A005867 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 1997.