A15 crash in South Kesteven on 22 July 2017 at 09:00 involving a taxi
A taxi crashed on the A15 in South Kesteven at 09:00 on Saturday 22 July 2017. A 24-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2017
- Saturday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77081, longitude -0.37688, in the PE10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bourne East, South Kesteven, PE10 9FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320326115
- Council area
- South Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 15
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 7 December 2023.
Serious
Toyota Aygo crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 7 December 2023
At the same spotRef 2023320753646
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 1 March 1994
9 m awayRef 199432B001864
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 1 October 2021
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 8 December 2025
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Slight
Audi TT crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 15 December 2011
20 m awayRef 201132N378911
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 25 June 1986
21 m awayRef 198632B077286
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017320326115 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Kesteven road accident statistics for 2017.