A46 crash in West Lindsey on 20 April 2009 at 18:15 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Harley-Davidson FLHR motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A46 in West Lindsey at 18:15 on Monday 20 April 2009. A 45-year-old female passenger on the Harley-Davidson FLHR motorcycle and the 49-year-old male rider of the Harley-Davidson FLHR motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 2009
- Monday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Harley-Davidson FLHR
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44842, longitude -0.36138, in the LN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200932D105309
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- 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
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 2016.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 15 April 2016
3 m awayRef 2016320086437
Serious
Aprilia SL 750 crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 13 May 2015
5 m awayRef 2015320031149
Serious
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 27 February 2024
13 m awayRef 2024320118649
Fatal
Car crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 19 September 1979
28 m awayRef 197932D133179
Fatal
Mercedes crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 10 February 1998
36 m awayRef 199832E000638
Serious
Ford crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 12 June 1990
82 m awayRef 199032E039390
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Harley-Davidson FLHR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,450 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Harley-Davidson FLHR)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Harley-Davidson FLHR)
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 200932D105309 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 2009.