A52 crash in Boston on 30 December 2016 at 17:42 involving a Nissan Micra
A car and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A52 in Boston at 17:42 on Friday 30 December 2016. The male driver of the car and the female driver of the Nissan Micra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2016
- Friday, 17:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96373, longitude -0.12381, in the PE20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016320437377
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 52
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1192
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
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The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2024.
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Serious
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A52 in Boston, 16 December 2016
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
- 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 2016320437377 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.