Serious unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 31 December 2016 at 20:12 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Boston at 20:12 on Saturday 31 December 2016. A 43-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 20:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98589, longitude -0.01841, in the PE21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Trinity, Boston, PE21 9PF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016320438367
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A1137 in Boston, 2 October 1981
23 m awayRef 198132A106281
Serious
Car crash on the B1183 in Boston, 23 June 1981
23 m awayRef 198132A064581
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B1183 in Boston, 4 March 1992
34 m awayRef 199232A017492
Slight
Car crash on the B1183 in Boston, 8 November 1983
42 m awayRef 198332A131083
Slight
Car crash on the B1183 in Boston, 30 May 1986
43 m awayRef 198632A056086
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1183 in Boston, 4 December 2017
65 m awayRef 2017320528759
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 43, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2016320438367 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.