A1073 crash in South Holland on 21 January 2009 at 07:40 involving a Mercedes CLS Class
A Mercedes CLS Class and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the A1073 in South Holland at 07:40 on Wednesday 21 January 2009. The 27-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2009
- Wednesday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes CLS Class and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67009, longitude -0.16245, in the PE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crowland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crowland and Deeping St Nicholas, South Holland, PE6 0BE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Holland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200932B022409
- Council area
- South Holland
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1073
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 1040
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1073 in South Holland, 22 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200932B387709
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in South Holland, 23 November 2024
7 m awayRef 2024320697961
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A16 in South Holland, 9 June 2023
8 m awayRef 2023320353344
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the B1040 in South Holland, 4 February 2011
10 m awayRef 201132B030211
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A16 in South Holland, 15 June 2025
11 m awayRef 2025320346865
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1073 in South Holland, 15 July 2008
32 m awayRef 200832B196708
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLS Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 200932B022409 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Holland road accident statistics for 2009.