A52 crash in Boston on 2 March 2012 at 08:00 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a Citroen C4 were involved in a crash on the A52 in Boston at 08:00 on Friday 2 March 2012. The 27-year-old male driver of the Audi A3 and the 34-year-old female driver of the Citroen C4 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2012
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95709, longitude -0.13958, in the PE20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201232B056012
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 52
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2016.
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on the A52 in Boston, 25 November 2016
9 m awayRef 2016320385016
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A52 in Boston, 26 May 2012
10 m awayRef 201232B144112
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the A52 in Boston, 9 February 2009
20 m awayRef 200932C037909
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A52 in Boston, 3 February 1997
32 m awayRef 199732A001097
Fatal
Volvo 360 crash on the A52 in Boston, 8 January 1990
32 m awayRef 199032A002590
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 5 February 1995
32 m awayRef 199532A001355
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C4)
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 201232B056012 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 2012.