Unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 26 October 2016 at 06:20 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Boston at 06:20 on Wednesday 26 October 2016. The 27-year-old male cyclist 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
- 26 Oct 2016
- Wednesday, 06:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97009, longitude -0.02627, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016320346596
- 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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 September 1981.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A16 in Boston, 9 September 1981
9 m awayRef 198132A095581
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A16 in Boston, 19 November 1984
10 m awayRef 198432A132484
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A16 in Boston, 5 November 1980
15 m awayRef 198032A116780
Slight
Van crash on the A16 in Boston, 9 November 1979
15 m awayRef 197932A118779
Slight
Land Rover 88 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 26 January 2004
20 m awayRef 200432C009504
Serious
Car crash on the A16 in Boston, 23 December 1982
21 m awayRef 198232A146682
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 27, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2016320346596 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.