A153 crash in East Lindsey on 23 March 2003 at 10:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the A153 in East Lindsey at 10:30 on Sunday 23 March 2003. The 17-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 17-year-old male passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2003
- Sunday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.10706, longitude -0.18107, in the LN4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tattershall and Coningsby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coningsby & Mareham, East Lindsey, LN4 4PB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200332C036503
- Council area
- East Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 153
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2000.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A153 in East Lindsey, 29 November 2000
At the same spotRef 200032C013960
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A153 in East Lindsey, 17 May 2013
6 m awayRef 201332E168513
Slight
Honda GLR 125 crash on the A153 in East Lindsey, 15 June 2024
7 m awayRef 2024320352120
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A153 in East Lindsey, 5 May 2015
7 m awayRef 2015320026534
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A153 in East Lindsey, 9 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025320612019
Slight
Optare crash on the A153 in East Lindsey, 6 August 2012
10 m awayRef 201232E226612
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 200332C036503 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 2003.