A57 crash in Lincoln on 28 March 2017 at 12:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on the A57 in Lincoln at 12:00 on Tuesday 28 March 2017. The 32-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Swift was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 2017
- Tuesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23201, longitude -0.55282, in the LN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lincoln. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carholme, Lincoln, LN1 1HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lincoln
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320130082
- 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
- 57
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 2017.
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A57 in Lincoln, 27 September 2017
1 m awayRef 2017320417333
Slight
Van crash on the A57 in Lincoln, 7 February 2020
1 m awayRef 2020320106792
Serious
Car crash on the A57 in Lincoln, 8 April 2014
1 m awayRef 201432L127514
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A57 in Lincoln, 17 April 2014
4 m awayRef 201432L144514
Serious
Fiat Tipo crash on the A57 in Lincoln, 26 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025320693359
Fatal
Skoda Octavia crash on the A57 in Lincoln, 27 March 2011
10 m awayRef 201132D082911
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Swift)
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 2017320130082 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 2017.