A52 crash in Boston on 16 December 2002 at 09:00 involving a Vauxhall Astravan
A Vauxhall Astravan and a Rover 25 were involved in a crash on the A52 in Boston at 09:00 on Monday 16 December 2002. The 44-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astravan was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2002
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astravan and Rover 25
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92942, longitude -0.15877, in the PE20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swineshead and Holland Fen, Boston, PE20 3JR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200232C184302
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2012.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A52 in Boston, 16 July 2012
10 m awayRef 201232B191412
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A52 in Boston, 4 December 2025
14 m awayRef 2025320708626
Serious
Toyota Aygo crash on the A52 in Boston, 8 December 2025
20 m awayRef 2025320740214
Slight
Scania crash on the A52 in Boston, 13 February 2012
63 m awayRef 201232B038612
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A52 in Boston, 12 October 2012
73 m awayRef 201232B300112
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A52 in Boston, 11 September 2007
73 m awayRef 200732C293807
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astravan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astravan)
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 200232C184302 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.