A46 crash in North Kesteven on 10 March 2018 at 01:20 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A46 in North Kesteven at 01:20 on Saturday 10 March 2018. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2018
- Saturday, 01:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.14123, longitude -0.70725, in the LN6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Witham St Hughs & Swinderby, North Kesteven, LN6 9JJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018320110125
- Council area
- North Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A46 in North Kesteven, 8 June 1996
14 m awayRef 199632D004226
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A46 in North Kesteven, 20 September 2014
17 m awayRef 2014320045161
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A46 in North Kesteven, 5 July 2002
19 m awayRef 200232D094902
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A46 in North Kesteven, 19 December 2003
19 m awayRef 200332D204303
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A46 in North Kesteven, 7 June 2002
19 m awayRef 200232D099602
Serious
Citroen C4 crash on the A46 in North Kesteven, 27 October 2012
19 m awayRef 201232N310612
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 2018320110125 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Kesteven road accident statistics for 2018.