A16 crash in Boston on 7 June 2004 at 08:31 involving a Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jun 2004
- Monday, 08:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95614, longitude -0.03094, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wyberton, Boston, PE21 7FZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200432C070404
- 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
- 16
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 2021.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A16 in Boston, 4 April 2021
6 m awayRef 2021320186014
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A16 in Boston, 28 August 2015
10 m awayRef 2015320085808
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A16 in Boston, 13 October 2001
85 m awayRef 200132C133601
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A16 in Boston, 13 December 2003
98 m awayRef 200332C184803
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A16 in Boston, 30 October 2025
100 m awayRef 2025320641379
Serious
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A16 in Boston, 23 June 2021
108 m awayRef 2021320348542
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX400
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX400)
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 200432C070404 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.