Serious A16 crash in Boston on 13 December 2005 at 16:20 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A car and a Kawasaki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A16 in Boston at 16:20 on Tuesday 13 December 2005. The 20-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Dec 2005
- Tuesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95747, longitude -0.02984, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200532C080805
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2003.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A16 in Boston, 23 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200332C193103
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A16 in Boston, 11 October 2015
4 m awayRef 2015320105085
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 14 January 2009
10 m awayRef 200932C008909
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A16 in Boston, 5 June 2002
10 m awayRef 200232C075102
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A16 in Boston, 1 September 2016
11 m awayRef 2016320262751
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A16 in Boston, 5 November 2021
13 m awayRef 2021320645045
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki)
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 200532C080805 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.