Serious unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 17 February 2005 at 14:50 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Boston at 14:50 on Thursday 17 February 2005. The 9-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Feb 2005
- Thursday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97405, longitude -0.03191, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Station, Boston, PE21 8QS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200532C016405
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a fatal crash on 15 November 2017.
Fatal
BMW 7 Series crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 15 November 2017
11 m awayRef 2017320497570
Slight
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14 m awayRef 198732A067387
Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 22 December 2007
20 m awayRef 200732C415107
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 15 January 2020
31 m awayRef 2020320030720
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 14 November 2008
36 m awayRef 200832C327708
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 9, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200532C016405 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 2005.