A52 crash in Boston on 14 December 2009 at 11:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A52 in Boston at 11:00 on Monday 14 December 2009. The 32-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf and a 37-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2009
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97666, longitude -0.03194, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Station, Boston, PE21 8QS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200932C379609
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 52
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2007.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A52 in Boston, 12 May 2007
At the same spotRef 200732C147207
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A52 in Boston, 18 May 2009
At the same spotRef 200932C127709
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A52 in Boston, 17 August 2015
2 m awayRef 2015320078646
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A52 in Boston, 17 February 2018
8 m awayRef 2018320077033
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 23 December 2013
9 m awayRef 201332B491013
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A52 in Boston, 5 August 2016
9 m awayRef 2016320223146
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200932C379609 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 2009.