B1397 crash in Boston on 29 September 2008 at 18:44 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Sanli motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B1397 in Boston at 18:44 on Monday 29 September 2008. The 17-year-old male rider of the Sanli motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 2008
- Monday, 18:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Sanli
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95204, longitude -0.04363, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200832C280808
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1397
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2014.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B1397 in Boston, 4 November 2014
13 m awayRef 2014320057763
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1397 in Boston, 9 July 2007
14 m awayRef 200732C216307
Slight
Transbus Int crash on the B1397 in Boston, 22 June 2016
15 m awayRef 2016320165414
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B1397 in Boston, 5 January 1998
30 m awayRef 199832A000168
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on the B1397 in Boston, 19 April 2001
30 m awayRef 200132C049901
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A16 in Boston, 15 October 1979
30 m awayRef 197932A108679
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Sanli
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Sanli)
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 200832C280808 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.