A158 crash in East Lindsey on 5 December 2002 at 20:05 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A158 in East Lindsey at 20:05 on Thursday 5 December 2002. The 37-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2002
- Thursday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.15244, longitude 0.33115, in the PE25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Skegness. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Clement's, East Lindsey, PE25 2RS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200232C179702
- 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
- 158
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2007.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A158 in East Lindsey, 18 June 2007
14 m awayRef 200732C193907
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A158 in East Lindsey, 13 January 2023
14 m awayRef 2023320027082
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A158 in East Lindsey, 2 May 2014
17 m awayRef 201432E154714
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A158 in East Lindsey, 10 October 2023
21 m awayRef 2023320636289
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A158 in East Lindsey, 17 April 1992
22 m awayRef 199232C023092
Serious
Car crash on the A158 in East Lindsey, 29 September 2025
24 m awayRef 2025320576196
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200232C179702 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.