C road crash in Boston PE21 on 25 March 2017 at 11:55 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a John Deere agricultural vehicle were involved in a crash on a C road in Boston at 11:55 on Saturday 25 March 2017. The 34-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 2017
- Saturday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and John Deere
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96992, longitude 0.0208, in the PE21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320125755
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 2016.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Boston, 26 November 2016
30 m awayRef 2016320387097
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 5 November 1986
103 m awayRef 198632A116886
Slight
BMW 6 Series crash on a C road in Boston, 11 March 2018
111 m awayRef 2018320111916
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on a C road in Boston, 6 March 2011
131 m awayRef 201132C056211
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Boston, 22 May 1985
203 m awayRef 198532A054785
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Boston, 19 October 2001
337 m awayRef 200132C136801
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: John Deere
Agricultural vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017320125755 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.