Unclassified road crash in Lincoln LN2 on 26 March 2018 at 21:05 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A Vauxhall Meriva and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lincoln at 21:05 on Monday 26 March 2018. The 25-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2018
- Monday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Meriva and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23961, longitude -0.51471, in the LN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lincoln. It is one of the crashes that make up the Glebe, Lincoln, LN2 4LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lincoln
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018320145498
- Council area
- Lincoln
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Lincoln, 21 December 2007
6 m awayRef 200732D417307
Serious
Nissan Leaf crash on an unclassified road in Lincoln, 28 November 2025
23 m awayRef 2025320697556
Slight
Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox crash on an unclassified road in Lincoln, 14 March 2004
67 m awayRef 200432D036704
Slight
Suzuki UK 110 crash on an unclassified road in Lincoln, 6 October 2018
112 m awayRef 2018320479891
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A158 in Lincoln, 14 October 1982
136 m awayRef 198232D162382
Slight
Car crash on the A158 in Lincoln, 29 May 1986
140 m awayRef 198632D037686
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018320145498 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lincoln road accident statistics for 2018.