Serious C road crash in Boston PE20 on 21 April 2012 at 22:18 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on a C road in Boston at 22:18 on Saturday 21 April 2012. The 21-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Apr 2012
- Saturday, 22:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.94055, longitude -0.15711, in the PE20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swineshead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swineshead and Holland Fen, Boston, PE20 3JR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201232B104912
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 1990.
Slight
Mazda 1300 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 1 March 1990
45 m awayRef 199032A020490
Slight
Car crash on the A17 in Boston, 18 April 1982
45 m awayRef 198232A041382
Slight
Minibus crash on the A17 in Boston, 22 February 1980
45 m awayRef 198032A018480
Slight
Car crash on the A17 in Boston, 8 November 1980
89 m awayRef 198032A118780
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A17 in Boston, 8 October 2019
110 m awayRef 2019320538345
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 3 February 1992
134 m awayRef 199232A010292
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 201232B104912 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.