A17 crash in Boston on 2 April 2004 at 14:45 involving a Ford Mondeo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 2004
- Friday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and another
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90297, longitude -0.11752, in the PE20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200432C038004
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 17
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 2020.
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A17 in Boston, 21 November 2017
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Fatal
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 200432C038004 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.