C road crash in Boston PE21 on 3 December 2002 at 17:40 involving a Piaggio Zip motorcycle
A Piaggio Zip motorcycle crashed on a C road in Boston at 17:40 on Tuesday 3 December 2002. The 45-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2002
- Tuesday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio Zip
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97023, longitude -0.01302, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Thomas', Boston, PE21 7RE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200232C176602
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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 lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 1979.
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Motorcycle crash on a C road in Boston, 14 November 1979
At the same spotRef 197932A119979
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Renault Extra crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 29 August 1991
At the same spotRef 199132A069091
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Renault Extra crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 13 August 1994
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Zip
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 45, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Zip)
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 200232C176602 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.