Unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 5 June 2017 at 09:39 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Boston at 09:39 on Monday 5 June 2017. The 41-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2017
- Monday, 09:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98655, longitude -0.04494, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320237264
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Senator crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 2 June 1997
21 m awayRef 199732A004287
Serious
Honda CBF125M crash on a C road in Boston, 30 October 2014
98 m awayRef 2014320053692
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A52 in Boston, 23 March 1996
137 m awayRef 199632A002196
Slight
Mini Countryman crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 20 June 2025
148 m awayRef 2025320359163
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 28 April 2002
154 m awayRef 200232C056202
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 10 September 2005
162 m awayRef 200532C057805
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- 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
- 41 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017320237264 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.