Serious A1 crash in South Kesteven on 28 September 2001 at 09:55 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A1 in South Kesteven at 09:55 on Friday 28 September 2001. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Sep 2001
- Friday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A6 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.86323, longitude -0.62937, in the NG33 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Isaac Newton, South Kesteven, NG33 5AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200132B129201
- Council area
- South Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 2010.
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 24 October 2010
10 m awayRef 201032B322010
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 24 August 2024
13 m awayRef 2024320505383
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 15 June 2023
15 m awayRef 2023320366127
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 14 June 2015
16 m awayRef 2015320052450
Slight
Iveco crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 14 February 2022
18 m awayRef 2022320092222
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 17 November 2025
18 m awayRef 2025320674187
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 200132B129201 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Kesteven road accident statistics for 2001.