A17 crash in Boston on 12 April 2015 at 18:40 involving a Mitsubishi Shogun
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 2015
- Sunday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Shogun and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.88996, longitude -0.08447, in the PE20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Five Village, Boston, PE20 2LF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015320020076
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 17
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 17
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Shogun
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 3,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2015320020076 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 2015.