Serious unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 7 December 2000 at 06:09 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Boston at 06:09 on Thursday 7 December 2000. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Dec 2000
- Thursday, 06:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 323
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95787, longitude -0.01553, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200032C014540
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- 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 22 November 2000.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 22 November 2000
At the same spotRef 200032C013630
Fatal
Suzuki crash on the A16 in Boston, 20 April 1994
100 m awayRef 199432A003544
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 18 April 1988
102 m awayRef 198832A047088
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Boston, 26 February 2019
125 m awayRef 2019320102605
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 2 December 1989
128 m awayRef 198932A105289
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Boston, 13 January 2013
145 m awayRef 201332B009113
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200032C014540 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.