Serious A52 crash in Boston on 15 December 2000 at 16:57 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A52 in Boston at 16:57 on Friday 15 December 2000. The 28-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 2000
- Friday, 16:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96759, longitude -0.07659, in the PE20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200032C014690
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 January 2012.
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A52 in Boston, 5 January 2012
32 m awayRef 201232B001312
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A52 in Boston, 20 May 2015
39 m awayRef 2015320034129
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A52 in Boston, 24 September 2010
40 m awayRef 201032C286310
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the A52 in Boston, 1 December 2019
40 m awayRef 2019320642591
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A52 in Boston, 2 April 2005
41 m awayRef 200532C508805
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 20 May 1980
42 m awayRef 198032A047180
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 3: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, 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 200032C014690 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.