Unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 30 March 2012 at 17:17 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A motorcycle and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Boston at 17:17 on Friday 30 March 2012. The male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2012
- Friday, 17:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97145, longitude -0.00016, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Skirbeck, Boston, PE21 0HD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201232B081512
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
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, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 1996.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 11 November 1996
61 m awayRef 199632A008576
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 8 November 2012
70 m awayRef 201232B328112
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 25 July 1994
71 m awayRef 199432A006184
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Peugeot 806 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 15 January 2003
81 m awayRef 200332C004403
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 4 November 1983
98 m awayRef 198332A128883
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 22 May 1997
108 m awayRef 199732A004047
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 276 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201232B081512 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.