Serious A607 crash in South Kesteven on 12 June 2015 at 22:38 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A607 in South Kesteven at 22:38 on Friday 12 June 2015. A 30-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 30-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jun 2015
- Friday, 22:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.89921, longitude -0.65676, in the NG31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Grantham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Grantham Earlesfield, South Kesteven, NG31 7RJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015320045583
- Council area
- South Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 607
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A607 in South Kesteven, 7 October 1982
25 m awayRef 198232B115782
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A607 in South Kesteven, 6 May 2007
31 m awayRef 200732B143707
Slight
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A607 in South Kesteven, 12 February 1997
34 m awayRef 199732B001257
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A607 in South Kesteven, 24 July 2006
40 m awayRef 200632B207606
Serious
Car crash on the A607 in South Kesteven, 6 September 1986
47 m awayRef 198632B107586
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A607 in South Kesteven, 31 March 1995
54 m awayRef 199532B003075
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 2015320045583 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Kesteven road accident statistics for 2015.