Serious C road crash in West Lindsey LN7 on 1 January 2008 at 03:56 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on a C road in West Lindsey at 03:56 on Tuesday 1 January 2008. The 27-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jan 2008
- Tuesday, 03:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.50224, longitude -0.40545, in the LN7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200832D024908
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 1434
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2015.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 17 December 2015
24 m awayRef 2015320138359
Slight
Car crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 7 March 1981
108 m awayRef 198132D034681
Slight
Chevrolet Matiz crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 15 December 2019
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Slight
Yamaha crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 8 May 1999
151 m awayRef 199932D004649
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 5 May 1980
160 m awayRef 198032D061580
Slight
Tesla Model 3 crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 2 February 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
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 200832D024908 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 2008.