A52 crash in Boston on 22 November 2002 at 14:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta, a Ford Escort and a car were involved in a crash on the A52 in Boston at 14:45 on Friday 22 November 2002. The 58-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2002
- Friday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98685, longitude 0.04614, in the PE22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200232C170502
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 52
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 2011.
Slight
Fiat Ducato crash on the A52 in Boston, 5 September 2011
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Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A52 in Boston, 29 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200432C035904
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Boston, 25 February 2022
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Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A52 in Boston, 28 May 2017
10 m awayRef 2017320222970
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A52 in Boston, 20 December 2004
10 m awayRef 200432C183504
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A52 in Boston, 7 November 2015
12 m awayRef 2015320118386
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 200232C170502 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.