A57 crash in Lincoln on 12 October 2002 at 13:40 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A57 in Lincoln at 13:40 on Saturday 12 October 2002. A 28-year-old female passenger in the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2002
- Saturday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2321, longitude -0.55349, in the LN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lincoln. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carholme, Lincoln, LN1 1HW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200232D145902
- Council area
- Lincoln
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 57
- 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
- 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 5 September 2004.
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A57 in Lincoln, 5 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200432D126004
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A57 in Lincoln, 5 September 1980
10 m awayRef 198032D127280
Slight
Car crash on the A57 in Lincoln, 5 September 1980
22 m awayRef 198032D127180
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A57 in Lincoln, 21 February 2005
22 m awayRef 200532D023205
Fatal
Peugeot 107 crash on the A57 in Lincoln, 13 May 2025
34 m awayRef 2025320276842
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lincoln, 5 January 1989
42 m awayRef 198932D000589
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200232D145902 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lincoln road accident statistics for 2002.