A52 crash in North Kesteven on 23 August 1997 at 02:35 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the A52 in North Kesteven at 02:35 on Saturday 23 August 1997. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 1997
- Saturday, 02:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91787, longitude -0.40263, in the NG34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199732B007457
- Council area
- North Kesteven
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 14 July 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in North Kesteven, 14 July 1987
At the same spotRef 198732B077487
Serious
Car crash on the A52 in North Kesteven, 25 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198532B144985
Slight
Lorry crash on the A52 in North Kesteven, 15 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198832B137188
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A52 in North Kesteven, 28 February 2017
16 m awayRef 2017320087306
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in North Kesteven, 7 March 2004
20 m awayRef 200432B036704
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A52 in North Kesteven, 26 December 1997
50 m awayRef 199732B012237
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 199732B007457 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 1997.