Serious A57 crash in West Lindsey on 14 August 1997 at 17:12 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry
An Iveco-Ford lorry and a Ford lorry were involved in a crash on the A57 in West Lindsey at 17:12 on Thursday 14 August 1997. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford lorry 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
- 14 Aug 1997
- Thursday, 17:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Iveco-Ford and Ford
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199732E003447
- 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
Slight
Reliant Rialto crash on the A57 in West Lindsey, 3 May 1996
At the same spotRef 199632E001856
Slight
Car crash on the A57 in West Lindsey, 1 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198732E064787
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,861 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,947 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 4: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 2 (Ford)
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 199732E003447 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 1997.