A17 crash in Boston on 8 July 2017 at 14:30 involving a Renault Clio
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2017
- Saturday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Goods vehicle and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95042, longitude -0.17254, in the PE20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320290824
- 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
- 17
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a fatal crash on 29 August 2018.
Fatal
Citroen Xsara crash on the A17 in Boston, 29 August 2018
4 m awayRef 2018320411588
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A17 in Boston, 30 August 2012
8 m awayRef 201232B245512
Serious
Renault Trucks crash on the A17 in Boston, 18 May 2015
16 m awayRef 2015320033492
Serious
Scania crash on the A17 in Boston, 4 February 2009
22 m awayRef 200932C032609
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A17 in Boston, 12 August 1985
27 m awayRef 198532A085585
Slight
Car crash on the A17 in Boston, 27 May 1986
78 m awayRef 198632A055286
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- 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
- 25 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017320290824 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.