Serious A18 crash in North Lincolnshire on 22 December 2003 at 02:29 involving an Audi 80
An Audi 80 and a Mitsubishi Space Wagon were involved in a crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire at 02:29 on Monday 22 December 2003. A 76-year-old female passenger in the Audi 80 was seriously injured and a 70-year-old male passenger in the Audi 80 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow and high winds on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Dec 2003
- Monday, 02:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi 80 and Mitsubishi Space Wagon
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.54845, longitude -0.51073, in the DN20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broughton & Scawby, North Lincolnshire, DN20 9LE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lincolnshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003160B06370
- Council area
- North Lincolnshire
- Police force
- Humberside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 18
- 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
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1206
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2014.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B1206 in North Lincolnshire, 27 July 2014
4 m awayRef 2014160B02641
Slight
Car crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 2 October 1981
10 m awayRef 198116U020464
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 6 June 1982
10 m awayRef 198216D130219
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 26 December 2014
12 m awayRef 2014160B05581
Slight
Qingqi QM 125 crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 27 April 2018
13 m awayRef 2018160291286
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1206 in North Lincolnshire, 15 August 2024
14 m awayRef 2024161481709
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi 80
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Space Wagon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi 80)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi 80)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2003160B06370 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Lincolnshire road accident statistics for 2003.