A157 crash in East Lindsey on 31 July 2012 at 21:52 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A car and a Daewoo Matiz were involved in a crash on the A157 in East Lindsey at 21:52 on Tuesday 31 July 2012. The 42-year-old female driver of the Daewoo Matiz was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2012
- Tuesday, 21:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Daewoo Matiz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.28946, longitude -0.29576, in the LN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201232E212012
- Council area
- East Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 157
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 2018.
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A157 in East Lindsey, 9 May 2018
17 m awayRef 2018320210558
Slight
Car crash on the A157 in East Lindsey, 16 September 1984
100 m awayRef 198432D147484
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A157 in East Lindsey, 20 November 2002
114 m awayRef 200232C169802
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A158 in East Lindsey, 1 August 1991
141 m awayRef 199132C053291
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A158 in East Lindsey, 29 May 2001
277 m awayRef 200132C065701
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A158 in East Lindsey, 19 June 1986
300 m awayRef 198632C048786
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Daewoo Matiz)
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 201232E212012 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Lindsey road accident statistics for 2012.