Serious A15 crash in West Lindsey on 9 February 2011 at 00:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A15 in West Lindsey at 00:30 on Wednesday 9 February 2011. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Feb 2011
- Wednesday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2561, longitude -0.53859, in the LN2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201132D034811
- 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
- 15
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 2022.
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Vauxhall Movano crash on the A15 in West Lindsey, 7 July 2023
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Scania crash on the A15 in West Lindsey, 11 November 2025
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the A15 in West Lindsey, 27 November 2023
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Slight
Car crash on the A15 in West Lindsey, 8 July 1986
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 201132D034811 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 2011.