Serious A161 crash in North Lincolnshire on 9 February 2003 at 13:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A161 in North Lincolnshire at 13:00 on Sunday 9 February 2003. A 39-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 46-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Feb 2003
- Sunday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66406, longitude -0.77212, in the DN14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lincolnshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200316B008703
- Council area
- North Lincolnshire
- Police force
- Humberside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 161
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2020.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A161 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 15 December 2020
6 m awayRef 2020161007295
Slight
Triumph Street Triple crash on the A161 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 26 April 2025
36 m awayRef 2025161582224
Slight
Car crash on the A161 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1 May 1981
85 m awayRef 198116K090192
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A161 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 23 April 2002
89 m awayRef 200216C034102
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A161 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 26 April 2012
107 m awayRef 2012160C02201
Serious
Honda crash on the A161 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 3 May 1999
151 m awayRef 199916C021299
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 200316B008703 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.