A15 crash in South Kesteven on 27 May 2002 at 16:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A15 in South Kesteven at 16:30 on Monday 27 May 2002. An 85-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 2002
- Monday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67501, longitude -0.33042, in the PE6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200232B075102
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 16
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2013.
Slight
Car crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 12 October 2013
9 m awayRef 201332N377513
Slight
Car crash on the A16 in South Kesteven, 10 March 2013
9 m awayRef 201332N086313
Slight
Car crash on the A16 in South Kesteven, 17 February 2011
10 m awayRef 201132N190011
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 4 July 2016
10 m awayRef 2016320178793
Serious
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 18 August 2015
11 m awayRef 2015320079240
Serious
Ford Tourneo crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 11 December 2019
12 m awayRef 2019320662669
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 86 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 85, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200232B075102 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.