A16 crash in East Lindsey on 7 December 2015 at 08:42 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 crashed on the A16 in East Lindsey at 08:42 on Monday 7 December 2015. The 57-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2015
- Monday, 08:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.29693, longitude 0.03105, in the LN11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Legbourne, East Lindsey, LN11 8PR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015320132872
- 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
- 60 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 20 April 2016
2 m awayRef 2016320091963
Slight
Lorry crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 3 January 2018
5 m awayRef 2018320006964
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 22 November 2025
8 m awayRef 2025320685763
Serious
Peugeot 308 crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 11 December 2020
15 m awayRef 2020320654754
Slight
Volvo crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 23 October 2018
30 m awayRef 2018320510000
Serious
Dacia Sandero crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 27 April 2018
35 m awayRef 2018320191296
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
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 2015320132872 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.