C road crash in Boston PE21 on 9 November 2016 at 17:04 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Volvo C 30 were involved in a crash on a C road in Boston at 17:04 on Wednesday 9 November 2016. The 46-year-old male driver of the Volvo C 30 and an 8-year-old male passenger in the Volvo C 30 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2016
- Wednesday, 17:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Volvo C 30
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97646, longitude -0.00355, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Skirbeck, Boston, PE21 9AE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016320371540
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 December 2020.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 18 December 2020
2 m awayRef 2020320669180
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on a C road in Boston, 13 June 2018
4 m awayRef 2018320273435
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 13 March 2014
5 m awayRef 201432B092214
Slight
Audi Q7 crash on a C road in Boston, 14 May 2024
6 m awayRef 2024320286451
Slight
Audi Q3 crash on a C road in Boston, 30 September 2024
6 m awayRef 2024320583816
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 12 March 2004
7 m awayRef 200432C029804
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volvo C 30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo C 30)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo C 30)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016320371540 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.