Serious C road crash in North Kesteven LN5 on 9 May 2018 at 15:20 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on a C road in North Kesteven at 15:20 on Wednesday 9 May 2018. The 41-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 May 2018
- Wednesday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.109, longitude -0.53146, in the LN5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018320210770
- Council area
- North Kesteven
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2022.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on a C road in North Kesteven, 14 December 2022
20 m awayRef 2022320731716
Slight
Ford KA crash on a C road in North Kesteven, 5 June 2025
38 m awayRef 2025320326642
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in North Kesteven, 18 February 2018
102 m awayRef 2018320078642
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in North Kesteven, 19 July 1996
121 m awayRef 199632D005896
Serious
FSO Cars 125 crash on the A607 in North Kesteven, 5 May 1992
198 m awayRef 199232D034892
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A607 in North Kesteven, 3 May 1995
323 m awayRef 199532D003565
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018320210770 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.