A15 crash in South Kesteven on 2 May 2002 at 01:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A15 in South Kesteven at 01:00 on Thursday 2 May 2002. The 27-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2002
- Thursday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.75198, longitude -0.36986, in the PE10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bourne Austerby, South Kesteven, PE10 0QU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200232B060702
- 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
- 15
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2018.
Slight
Jaguar XE Series crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 22 December 2018
4 m awayRef 2018320620819
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 6 April 2020
7 m awayRef 2020320179181
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 18 November 2025
16 m awayRef 2025320677482
Serious
Mazda 1300 crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 30 December 1991
20 m awayRef 199132B109491
Slight
Car crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 9 May 1986
20 m awayRef 198632B058286
Fatal
Volvo crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 8 November 2016
30 m awayRef 2016320360906
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200232B060702 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 2002.