A52 crash in Boston on 25 March 2017 at 06:15 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 2017
- Saturday, 06:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.03278, longitude 0.11689, in the PE22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Leake and Wrangle, Boston, PE22 9AE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320125403
- 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
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 2025.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A52 in Boston, 24 February 2025
26 m awayRef 2025320109501
Slight
Lorry crash on the A52 in Boston, 11 April 1995
28 m awayRef 199532A002605
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A57 in Boston, 19 July 2018
34 m awayRef 2018320338461
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A52 in Boston, 30 March 2002
35 m awayRef 200232C041902
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A52 in Boston, 10 November 2022
50 m awayRef 2022320658004
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 21 August 1982
53 m awayRef 198232A086482
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX600)
- 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 2017320125403 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.