Unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 26 June 2018 at 21:50 involving a Ford Focus
Four vehicles, including a Ford Focus and a Honda Accord, were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Boston at 21:50 on Tuesday 26 June 2018. The 26-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus 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 Jun 2018
- Tuesday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Focus and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98248, longitude -0.03588, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fenside, Boston, PE21 8HJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018320296832
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 18 April 1989
18 m awayRef 198932A029589
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 4 April 2009
52 m awayRef 200932C087009
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 30 January 1990
56 m awayRef 199032A010590
Serious
Jaguar XJ Series crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 4 July 2003
70 m awayRef 200332C093703
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 20 April 1992
72 m awayRef 199232A029892
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 19 December 1980
74 m awayRef 198032A140280
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 4: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018320296832 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.