A17 crash in Boston on 18 April 2018 at 18:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 2018
- Wednesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91385, longitude -0.1432, in the PE20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018320177280
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 17
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A17 in Boston, 16 September 2002
13 m awayRef 200232C130002
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A17 in Boston, 24 March 2004
47 m awayRef 200432C034004
Slight
Lorry crash on the A17 in Boston, 20 January 1982
83 m awayRef 198232A007082
Serious
Car crash on the A17 in Boston, 30 January 1987
87 m awayRef 198732A009787
Serious
Scania crash on the A16 in Boston, 30 November 1998
87 m awayRef 199832A010198
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A17 in Boston, 11 April 2025
155 m awayRef 2025320210409
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018320177280 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 2018.