Unclassified road crash in West Lindsey DN21 on 30 August 2015 at 18:20 involving a Mercedes SLK Class
A Mercedes SLK Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey at 18:20 on Sunday 30 August 2015. The 25-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2015
- Sunday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes SLK Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39397, longitude -0.77062, 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
- 2015320085009
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2013.
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 4 July 2013
19 m awayRef 201332L234813
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 2 September 1981
20 m awayRef 198132D123081
Serious
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 12 May 1998
20 m awayRef 199832E001868
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 1 February 1997
27 m awayRef 199732E000387
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 20 January 2006
49 m awayRef 200632D003106
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 12 June 1985
55 m awayRef 198532E052885
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes SLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 2015320085009 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 2015.