B1398 crash in West Lindsey on 7 July 2017 at 17:58 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B1398 in West Lindsey at 17:58 on Friday 7 July 2017. The 52-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 2017
- Friday, 17:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2529, longitude -0.55502, in the LN1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Lincoln, LN1 3PE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320289531
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1398
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a fatal crash on 1 November 2015.
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 1 November 2015
8 m awayRef 2015320116591
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 5 July 2004
9 m awayRef 200432D092604
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 1 August 2023
18 m awayRef 2023320476324
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 3 December 2020
18 m awayRef 2020320640270
Serious
Subaru Impreza crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 27 December 2003
24 m awayRef 200332D207303
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the A57 in West Lindsey, 11 December 2017
27 m awayRef 2017320122804
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2017320289531 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.