Unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 24 June 2016 at 20:34 involving a Sym Jet motorcycle
A Sym Jet motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Boston at 20:34 on Friday 24 June 2016. The 25-year-old male rider of the Sym Jet motorcycle was 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
- 24 Jun 2016
- Friday, 20:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Sym Jet and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96927, longitude -0.02641, 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 7RE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016320165385
- Council area
- Boston
- 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
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1983.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A16 in Boston, 31 October 1983
4 m awayRef 198332A126783
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B1397 in Boston, 4 November 1996
4 m awayRef 199632A008306
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 26 April 2008
4 m awayRef 200832C114508
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 4 July 1997
13 m awayRef 199732A005337
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 17 February 1994
18 m awayRef 199432A002014
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 8 December 2011
18 m awayRef 201132B366111
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Sym Jet
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Sym Jet)
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 2016320165385 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 2016.