Serious C road crash in Boston PE20 on 13 October 2017 at 11:51 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a goods vehicle were involved in a crash on a C road in Boston at 11:51 on Friday 13 October 2017. The 50-year-old male driver of the goods vehicle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Oct 2017
- Friday, 11:51
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and goods vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92033, longitude -0.12416, in the PE20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320441985
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 297 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2004.
Slight
Mini One crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 12 December 2004
297 m awayRef 200432C175904
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 14 February 1988
299 m awayRef 198832A018688
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 23 June 2001
299 m awayRef 200132C077501
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Boston, 28 January 2013
313 m awayRef 201332B028513
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on a C road in Boston, 1 December 2015
651 m awayRef 2015320130008
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 27 September 2019
767 m awayRef 2019320517247
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 50, goods vehicle occupant (weight unknown), in vehicle 2 (Goods vehicle)
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 2017320441985 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.