A159 crash in West Lindsey on 29 April 2014 at 09:47 involving a Volkswagen LT 35 van
A Volkswagen LT 35 van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A159 in West Lindsey at 09:47 on Tuesday 29 April 2014. The 23-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 2014
- Tuesday, 09:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen LT 35 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39419, longitude -0.77272, in the DN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gainsborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gainsborough South-West, West Lindsey, DN21 2AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201432L151114
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 159
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 27 March 1989
3 m awayRef 198932E017889
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 26 March 1980
3 m awayRef 198032D115780
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 8 December 1996
8 m awayRef 199632E005296
Serious
Car crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 22 August 1988
12 m awayRef 198832E075288
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 19 May 1984
12 m awayRef 198432D076584
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 13 November 1979
12 m awayRef 197932D164579
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen LT 35
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 23, 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 201432L151114 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 2014.