Serious unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 9 September 2014 at 16:10 involving a Mercedes SLK Class
A Mercedes SLK Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Boston at 16:10 on Tuesday 9 September 2014. The 26-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Sep 2014
- Tuesday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes SLK Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9656, longitude -0.02375, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Thomas', Boston, PE21 7RE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014320043019
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 14 May 1982
15 m awayRef 198232A050182
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 20 December 1979
22 m awayRef 197932A138979
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 25 September 1982
25 m awayRef 198232A103482
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 1 July 2014
28 m awayRef 2014320028633
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Boston, 10 September 1984
36 m awayRef 198432A100384
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 7 April 1989
36 m awayRef 198932A026589
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes SLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 26, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2014320043019 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.