Serious A155 crash in East Lindsey on 20 October 2002 at 21:47 involving a Fiat Brava
A Fiat Brava crashed on the A155 in East Lindsey at 21:47 on Sunday 20 October 2002. The 48-year-old female driver was seriously injured and a 22-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Oct 2002
- Sunday, 21:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Brava
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.14449, longitude 0.01774, in the PE23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200232C150802
- Council area
- East Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 155
- Road type
- Single 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2001.
Slight
MG MGF crash on the A155 in East Lindsey, 8 September 2001
22 m awayRef 200132C117201
Fatal
Porsche Cayenne crash on the A155 in East Lindsey, 7 December 2024
26 m awayRef 2024320731721
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A155 in East Lindsey, 13 July 2004
51 m awayRef 200432C087504
Serious
Triumph crash on the A155 in East Lindsey, 9 February 1997
54 m awayRef 199732C000777
Slight
Car crash on the A155 in East Lindsey, 27 November 1998
54 m awayRef 199832C010098
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the A155 in East Lindsey, 6 September 2025
83 m awayRef 2025320526998
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Brava
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,581 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Brava)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Brava)
- 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 200232C150802 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Lindsey road accident statistics for 2002.