A52 crash in Boston on 28 October 2000 at 08:20 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A vehicle and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A52 in Boston at 08:20 on Saturday 28 October 2000. The 18-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle 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
- 28 Oct 2000
- Saturday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97599, longitude 0.02388, in the PE21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200032C012530
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 200032C012530 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 2000.