A52 crash in Boston on 19 March 2008 at 08:00 involving a Peugeot 107
A Peugeot 107 and a Ford Fusion were involved in a crash on the A52 in Boston at 08:00 on Wednesday 19 March 2008. The 63-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 107 and the 55-year-old male driver of the Ford Fusion were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 2008
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 107 and Ford Fusion
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98612, longitude 0.00961, in the PE21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fishtoft, Boston, PE21 9RH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200832C074108
- 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
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2000.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A52 in Boston, 24 January 2000
At the same spotRef 200032C000700
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A52 in Boston, 17 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200632C133406
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 9 May 2007
At the same spotRef 200732C145407
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 20 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200132C106401
Slight
Kia Soul crash on the A52 in Boston, 18 April 2012
At the same spotRef 201232B101512
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 30 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200132C066401
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 107)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fusion)
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 200832C074108 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 2008.