Unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 29 September 2010 at 18:20 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Boston at 18:20 on Wednesday 29 September 2010. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 2010
- Wednesday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96993, longitude -0.02734, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Thomas', Boston, PE21 7RE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201032C292010
- Council area
- Boston
- 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
- Other 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, lighting unknown
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 1980.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A16 in Boston, 24 May 1980
36 m awayRef 198032A048480
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A16 in Boston, 31 July 1997
36 m awayRef 199732A006317
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B1397 in Boston, 21 August 2000
36 m awayRef 200032C009160
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 3 May 2011
51 m awayRef 201132C113611
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B1397 in Boston, 8 February 2001
58 m awayRef 200132C017001
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 17 December 2002
61 m awayRef 200232C185502
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201032C292010 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 2010.