Serious C road crash in West Lindsey LN3 on 31 March 2017 at 21:41 involving a Hyundai i10
A Hyundai i10 and a Ford Transit lorry were involved in a crash on a C road in West Lindsey at 21:41 on Friday 31 March 2017. The 89-year-old male driver of the Hyundai i10 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Mar 2017
- Friday, 21:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i10 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23959, longitude -0.4591, in the LN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cherry Willingham.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320135658
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 2001.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 22 June 2001
34 m awayRef 200132D078601
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 19 January 1993
34 m awayRef 199332E000283
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Lindsey, 31 January 1984
34 m awayRef 198432D016884
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 2 February 1980
66 m awayRef 198032D016680
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Lindsey, 31 July 1980
166 m awayRef 198032D107180
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 19 September 1989
166 m awayRef 198932E059889
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 89 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 89, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i10)
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 2017320135658 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 2017.