Serious A52 crash in Boston on 17 April 2017 at 10:55 involving a John Deere 6R Series agricultural vehicle
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Apr 2017
- Monday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- John Deere 6R Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.05132, longitude 0.16036, in the PE22 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320159646
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A52 in Boston, 29 September 2006
22 m awayRef 200632C304806
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A52 in Boston, 22 June 1992
30 m awayRef 199232A047292
Serious
Land Rover Defender crash on the A52 in Boston, 7 March 2000
44 m awayRef 200032C002040
Slight
Fendt crash on the A52 in Boston, 21 June 2008
49 m awayRef 200832C169008
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 15 June 1986
70 m awayRef 198632A062986
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 18 July 1985
70 m awayRef 198532A076685
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: John Deere 6R Series
Agricultural vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,788 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, agricultural vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (John Deere 6R Series)
- 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 2017320159646 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.