A17 crash in South Holland on 17 May 2004 at 22:54 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the A17 in South Holland at 22:54 on Monday 17 May 2004. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2004
- Monday, 22:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.80017, longitude 0.0838, in the PE12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gedney, South Holland, PE12 0DB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Holland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200432B078504
- Council area
- South Holland
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 17
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 June 2014.
Serious
Seat Alhambra crash on the A17 in South Holland, 27 June 2014
7 m awayRef 2014320027696
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A17 in South Holland, 8 June 2020
13 m awayRef 2020320290768
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A17 in South Holland, 25 September 2004
22 m awayRef 200432B150704
Fatal
Citroen Saxo crash on the A17 in South Holland, 22 May 2010
36 m awayRef 201032B150210
Slight
Bus crash on the A17 in South Holland, 25 July 1982
54 m awayRef 198232A076682
Serious
Car crash on the A17 in South Holland, 5 April 1979
54 m awayRef 197932A035379
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
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 200432B078504 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Holland road accident statistics for 2004.