A17 crash in Boston on 15 July 2014 at 23:05 involving a Kawasaki ZX900 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2014
- Tuesday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX900
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90569, longitude -0.12448, in the PE20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014320031406
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 17
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a fatal crash on 9 September 2012.
Fatal
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A17 in Boston, 9 September 2012
11 m awayRef 201232B258512
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A17 in Boston, 20 April 2011
127 m awayRef 201132C102411
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A17 in Boston, 2 November 2000
194 m awayRef 200032C012690
Serious
Mercedes 300 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 15 September 1995
203 m awayRef 199532A007105
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the A17 in Boston, 10 December 2019
204 m awayRef 2019320660291
Fatal
Car crash on the A17 in Boston, 12 May 1987
211 m awayRef 198732A049987
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX900
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX900)
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 2014320031406 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 2014.