A18 crash in East Lindsey on 9 November 2012 at 10:40 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A18 in East Lindsey at 10:40 on Friday 9 November 2012. The 40-year-old female driver, a 13-year-old male passenger and a 7-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2012
- Friday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4388, longitude -0.07223, in the DN36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201232E335512
- 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
- 18
- 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
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 17 May 2009
At the same spotRef 200932C135109
Fatal
Yamaha R6 crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 17 July 2000
36 m awayRef 200032C007530
Slight
Lorry crash on the B1431 in East Lindsey, 20 March 1980
51 m awayRef 198032C020180
Serious
Van crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 4 June 2025
107 m awayRef 2025320324027
Slight
Car crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 11 December 2003
112 m awayRef 200332C187603
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 3 August 2022
165 m awayRef 2022320449383
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201232E335512 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.