A15 crash in Lincoln on 21 December 2016 at 18:30 involving a Renault Kangoo van
A Renault Kangoo van and a Saab 9-5 were involved in a crash on the A15 in Lincoln at 18:30 on Wednesday 21 December 2016. The 36-year-old male driver of the Saab 9-5 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Kangoo and Saab 9-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.22491, longitude -0.53657, in the LN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lincoln. It is one of the crashes that make up the Boultham, Lincoln, LN5 7AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lincoln
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016321002425
- Council area
- Lincoln
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 15
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 March 2009.
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A15 in Lincoln, 15 March 2009
7 m awayRef 200932D069709
Serious
Porsche 944 crash on an unclassified road in Lincoln, 30 January 1998
7 m awayRef 199832D000898
Slight
Fiat Bravo crash on the A15 in Lincoln, 16 May 2005
7 m awayRef 200532D525005
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on the A15 in Lincoln, 15 October 1993
15 m awayRef 199332D008593
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A15 in Lincoln, 6 September 2008
15 m awayRef 200832D256708
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A15 in Lincoln, 31 January 2014
15 m awayRef 201432L040314
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Kangoo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Saab 9-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 9-5)
- 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 2016321002425 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lincoln road accident statistics for 2016.