A1500 crash in West Lindsey on 15 December 2016 at 00:30 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on the A1500 in West Lindsey at 00:30 on Thursday 15 December 2016. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.29203, longitude -0.55761, in the LN1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016320415772
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1500
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 141 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 July 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the A15 in West Lindsey, 1 July 1986
141 m awayRef 198632E054786
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1500 in West Lindsey, 4 December 1998
241 m awayRef 199832E005628
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 29 March 1981
259 m awayRef 198132D047081
Serious
Kia Rio crash on the A1500 in West Lindsey, 4 May 2024
265 m awayRef 2024320261176
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A1500 in West Lindsey, 22 June 2006
291 m awayRef 200632D184006
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in West Lindsey, 20 February 1981
459 m awayRef 198132D026781
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2016320415772 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 2016.