A16 crash in East Lindsey on 7 March 2015 at 17:00 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A car and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the A16 in East Lindsey at 17:00 on Saturday 7 March 2015. The 62-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat 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
- 7 Mar 2015
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.1746, longitude 0.08885, in the PE23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Spilsby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Spilsby, East Lindsey, PE23 5HD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015320012309
- 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
- 16
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- B
- Second road number
- 1195
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 September 2017.
Serious
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 4 September 2017
5 m awayRef 2017320379299
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 14 August 2019
7 m awayRef 2019320433306
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 20 September 2019
7 m awayRef 2019320503390
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 12 May 1997
10 m awayRef 199732C002897
Serious
Car crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 19 October 1984
10 m awayRef 198432C091284
Serious
Car crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 30 March 1986
10 m awayRef 198632C022586
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 2015320012309 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 2015.