B1398 crash in West Lindsey on 5 July 2004 at 17:05 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Suzuki Ignis were involved in a crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey at 17:05 on Monday 5 July 2004. A 16-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2004
- Monday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Suzuki Ignis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25279, longitude -0.55504, in the LN1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Lincoln, LN1 3PE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200432D092604
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1398
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2017.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 7 July 2017
9 m awayRef 2017320289531
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 1 November 2015
10 m awayRef 2015320116591
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 3 December 2020
11 m awayRef 2020320640270
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 1 August 2023
14 m awayRef 2023320476324
Serious
Subaru Impreza crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 27 December 2003
20 m awayRef 200332D207303
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the A57 in West Lindsey, 11 December 2017
34 m awayRef 2017320122804
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Ignis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- 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 200432D092604 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 2004.