A17 crash in Boston on 30 November 2002 at 14:50 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A17 in Boston at 14:50 on Saturday 30 November 2002. The 50-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2002
- Saturday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90805, longitude -0.13142, in the PE20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200232C174802
- 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
- 17
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1397
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 23 April 2008.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A17 in Boston, 23 April 2008
At the same spotRef 200832C113008
Fatal
John Deere crash on the A17 in Boston, 20 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199932C009739
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A17 in Boston, 12 September 2005
10 m awayRef 200532C066005
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A17 in Boston, 27 May 2006
14 m awayRef 200632C143006
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on the A17 in Boston, 26 April 2005
14 m awayRef 200532C517005
Serious
ERF crash on the A17 in Boston, 5 March 2002
14 m awayRef 200232C027302
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 200232C174802 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.