A52 crash in Boston on 5 June 2018 at 16:50 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion and a Massey Ferguson agricultural vehicle were involved in a crash on the A52 in Boston at 16:50 on Tuesday 5 June 2018. The 74-year-old male driver of the Ford Fusion was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2018
- Tuesday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fusion and Massey Ferguson
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.05213, longitude 0.16126, in the PE22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018320260750
- 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
- 52
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2002.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A52 in Boston, 7 May 2002
2 m awayRef 200232C060502
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Honda Accord crash on the A52 in Boston, 23 February 2007
2 m awayRef 200732C058007
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Audi A1 crash on the A52 in Boston, 14 March 2025
3 m awayRef 2025320149645
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A52 in Boston, 4 March 2019
9 m awayRef 2019320112493
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 3 October 2008
10 m awayRef 200832C283108
Slight
Fendt crash on the A52 in Boston, 21 June 2008
60 m awayRef 200832C169008
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Massey Ferguson
Agricultural vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fusion)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018320260750 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.