A159 crash in West Lindsey on 24 May 2017 at 13:20 involving a Volkswagen Beetle
A Volkswagen Beetle and a Volkswagen Crafter van were involved in a crash on the A159 in West Lindsey at 13:20 on Wednesday 24 May 2017. The 58-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Beetle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 2017
- Wednesday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Beetle and Volkswagen Crafter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48355, longitude -0.68945, in the DN21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320219014
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 159
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 July 2025.
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 6 July 2025
4 m awayRef 2025320394607
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 13 January 2004
5 m awayRef 200432D005004
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 5 December 2001
5 m awayRef 200132D165101
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 8 January 2015
19 m awayRef 2015320001347
Serious
Fiat Ducato crash on the A16 in West Lindsey, 19 August 2021
37 m awayRef 2021320467624
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 14 March 1993
76 m awayRef 199332E001203
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Beetle
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Crafter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Beetle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017320219014 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.