Serious A6121 crash in South Kesteven on 18 June 1997 at 06:50 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A6121 in South Kesteven at 06:50 on Wednesday 18 June 1997. The 36-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 1997
- Wednesday, 06:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.71784, longitude -0.4366, in the PE9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199732B005047
- Council area
- South Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6121
- 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, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 July 2015.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A6121 in South Kesteven, 8 July 2015
57 m awayRef 2015320058954
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A6121 in South Kesteven, 23 November 2004
63 m awayRef 200432B189304
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A6121 in South Kesteven, 7 October 1995
100 m awayRef 199532B009805
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A6121 in South Kesteven, 4 October 1992
100 m awayRef 199232B086692
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A6121 in South Kesteven, 15 June 2008
175 m awayRef 200832B164708
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A6121 in South Kesteven, 28 June 2025
215 m awayRef 2025320378915
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199732B005047 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Kesteven road accident statistics for 1997.