Unclassified road crash in West Lindsey DN21 on 17 November 2008 at 08:20 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey at 08:20 on Monday 17 November 2008. The 43-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2008
- Monday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39654, longitude -0.77202, in the DN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gainsborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gainsborough South-West, West Lindsey, DN21 2AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200832D335408
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2025.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 6 December 2025
12 m awayRef 2025320720585
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 10 January 1992
36 m awayRef 199232E001792
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 9 September 2001
40 m awayRef 200132D116201
Slight
Car crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 16 January 1984
40 m awayRef 198432D010084
Slight
Car crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 3 November 1989
40 m awayRef 198932E075289
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 5 April 1989
41 m awayRef 198932E021089
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 200832D335408 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.