Serious A16 crash in East Lindsey on 19 August 2012 at 18:30 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Mercedes Vito van were involved in a crash on the A16 in East Lindsey at 18:30 on Sunday 19 August 2012. The 50-year-old male driver of the Toyota Yaris was seriously injured and the 41-year-old male driver of the Mercedes Vito van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Aug 2012
- Sunday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Mercedes Vito
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48171, longitude -0.06832, in the DN36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201232E233212
- 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
- 16
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 29 July 2016
21 m awayRef 2016320212923
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 11 September 2004
22 m awayRef 200432C123604
Fatal
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 31 May 2006
22 m awayRef 200632C153506
Serious
Yamaha Delight crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 22 October 2021
25 m awayRef 2021320614987
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 8 January 2017
33 m awayRef 2017320044757
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 6 December 2013
34 m awayRef 201332E462913
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes Vito)
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 201232E233212 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.