A52 crash in Boston on 12 December 2005 at 20:55 involving an Iveco lorry
A car and an Iveco lorry were involved in a crash on the A52 in Boston at 20:55 on Monday 12 December 2005. The 77-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2005
- Monday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Iveco
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97403, longitude -0.05262, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200532C083305
- 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
- 52
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2013.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A52 in Boston, 12 June 2013
28 m awayRef 201332B202713
Serious
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 26 November 1982
28 m awayRef 198232A129782
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 6 December 1981
45 m awayRef 198132A132881
Serious
Lorry crash on the A52 in Boston, 29 September 1989
57 m awayRef 198932A082289
Slight
Lorry crash on the A52 in Boston, 29 April 1979
63 m awayRef 197932A041979
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 25 July 1982
78 m awayRef 198232A076782
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
Vehicle 2: Iveco
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,790 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200532C083305 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.