B1397 crash in Boston on 18 October 2012 at 18:00 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the B1397 in Boston at 18:00 on Thursday 18 October 2012. The 53-year-old female driver of the Citroen Xsara and the 42-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 206 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2012
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xsara and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95771, longitude -0.03891, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wyberton, Boston, PE21 7FZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201232B297412
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1397
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1397 in Boston, 23 August 2011
At the same spotRef 201132B236711
Slight
Lorry crash on the A16 in Boston, 11 January 1980
At the same spotRef 198032A003080
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B1397 in Boston, 25 October 2006
At the same spotRef 200632C330706
Slight
Lexus IS200 crash on the B1397 in Boston, 21 September 2012
At the same spotRef 201232B270612
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 2 April 2005
At the same spotRef 200532C511705
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B1397 in Boston, 19 May 2009
At the same spotRef 200932C129509
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 201232B297412 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.