Unclassified road crash in Lincoln LN6 on 9 December 2008 at 20:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lincoln at 20:00 on Tuesday 9 December 2008. A 42-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira, a 21-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira and a 30-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2008
- Tuesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.21933, longitude -0.59841, in the LN6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lincoln. It is one of the crashes that make up the Birchwood, Lincoln, LN6 0UJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lincoln
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200832D366808
- Council area
- Lincoln
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2004.
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At the same spotRef 200432D194904
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
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
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,488 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200832D366808 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lincoln road accident statistics for 2008.