Serious unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 4 April 2002 at 17:45
A vehicle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Boston at 17:45 on Thursday 4 April 2002. A 59-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Apr 2002
- Thursday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97973, longitude -0.02212, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Station, Boston, PE21 8QS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200232C047002
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,410 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200232C047002 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 2002.