A16 crash in Boston on 24 March 2017 at 11:44 involving a Yamaha R6 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2017
- Friday, 11:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha R6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91245, longitude -0.06525, in the PE20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320124559
- 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
- 16
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
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The nearest, 89 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 December 2016.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha R6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha R6)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017320124559 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 2017.