Serious B1449 crash in East Lindsey on 4 January 2014 at 22:03 involving a taxi
A taxi crashed on the B1449 in East Lindsey at 22:03 on Saturday 4 January 2014. A 64-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jan 2014
- Saturday, 22:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.24981, longitude 0.26219, in the LN13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201432E005214
- Council area
- East Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1449
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 52
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the A52 in East Lindsey, 11 June 2007
4 m awayRef 200732C185707
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A52 in East Lindsey, 25 February 2003
4 m awayRef 200332C106203
Serious
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A52 in East Lindsey, 5 September 2008
4 m awayRef 200832C260908
Serious
Rover 25 crash on the B1449 in East Lindsey, 19 April 2008
4 m awayRef 200832C108008
Slight
TGB 202 crash on the A52 in East Lindsey, 18 May 2013
7 m awayRef 201332E173913
Slight
Honda crash on the B1449 in East Lindsey, 19 September 2006
7 m awayRef 200632C292306
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 64, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201432E005214 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 2014.