A159 crash in West Lindsey on 17 October 2015 at 02:00 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 crashed on the A159 in West Lindsey at 02:00 on Saturday 17 October 2015. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 2015
- Saturday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49894, longitude -0.66631, in the DN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Scotter.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015320107667
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 2024.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 3 April 2024
30 m awayRef 2024320192818
Slight
Car crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 19 April 1986
41 m awayRef 198632E033086
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 30 August 1986
41 m awayRef 198632E077286
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 13 July 2006
59 m awayRef 200632D197406
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 3 November 1998
71 m awayRef 199832E004978
Serious
Car crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 30 November 1979
71 m awayRef 197932D174979
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
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 2015320107667 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.