A17 crash in Boston on 12 November 2004 at 13:50 involving a Ford Transit van
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2004
- Friday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97547, longitude -0.20046, in the PE20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200432B181804
- Council area
- Boston
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 76 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 1986.
Slight
Scooter crash on the A17 in Boston, 28 March 1986
76 m awayRef 198632A031886
Serious
Car crash on the A17 in Boston, 28 January 1984
99 m awayRef 198432A011184
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the A17 in Boston, 3 December 2020
120 m awayRef 2020320640620
Slight
Car crash on the A17 in Boston, 20 March 1985
173 m awayRef 198532A032285
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A17 in North Kesteven, 16 October 1993
240 m awayRef 199332B008443
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A17 in Boston, 5 August 2025
265 m awayRef 2025320458253
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200432B181804 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Boston road accident statistics for 2004.