A18 crash in North Lincolnshire on 27 September 2005 at 16:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A car, a Volkswagen Polo and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire at 16:00 on Tuesday 27 September 2005. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2005
- Tuesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Polo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.58913, longitude -0.69166, in the DN15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Scunthorpe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burringham & Gunness, North Lincolnshire, DN15 8TE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lincolnshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005160B03990
- Council area
- North Lincolnshire
- Police force
- Humberside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 18
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 1991.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 11 December 1991
10 m awayRef 199116D041230
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in North Lincolnshire, 19 January 2019
13 m awayRef 2019160809060
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 7 October 2025
21 m awayRef 2025161651765
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 1 September 2023
27 m awayRef 2023161352859
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 24 December 2021
34 m awayRef 2021161126407
Slight
Toyota Proace crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 5 November 2022
58 m awayRef 2022161253425
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,422 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 3 (Motorcycle)
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 2005160B03990 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Lincolnshire road accident statistics for 2005.