Serious A1137 crash in Boston on 9 November 2017 at 12:17 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a Derbi Senda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1137 in Boston at 12:17 on Thursday 9 November 2017. The 16-year-old male rider of the Derbi Senda motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Nov 2017
- Thursday, 12:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Derbi Senda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98366, longitude -0.01859, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Skirbeck, Boston, PE21 9AE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017320495706
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1137
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 12 April 1987
13 m awayRef 198732A040187
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 1 March 2006
19 m awayRef 200632C010606
Slight
Car crash on the B1183 in Boston, 16 September 1988
22 m awayRef 198832A109288
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 28 April 1980
22 m awayRef 198032A040280
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1183 in Boston, 6 October 1987
34 m awayRef 198732A109687
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1137 in Boston, 18 September 2019
35 m awayRef 2019320498742
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Derbi Senda
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Derbi Senda)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2017320495706 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.