Unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 3 December 2015 at 16:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Boston at 16:00 on Thursday 3 December 2015. The 47-year-old female cyclist and an 8-year-old female passenger on the bicycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and bicycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96687, longitude -0.03792, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Thomas', Boston, PE21 7JX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015320134409
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2005.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 23 December 2005
2 m awayRef 200532C084905
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 13 August 2010
8 m awayRef 201032C245610
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 21 August 2019
10 m awayRef 2019320451429
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 21 June 1985
21 m awayRef 198532A065485
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 16 May 1996
30 m awayRef 199632A003616
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 2 September 2002
51 m awayRef 200232C121802
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 47, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, cyclist, 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 2015320134409 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.