Unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 7 July 2018 at 06:50 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Boston at 06:50 on Saturday 7 July 2018. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 2018
- Saturday, 06:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9814, longitude -0.02563, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Station, Boston, PE21 8QS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018320316205
- 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
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1994.
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 29 March 1994
51 m awayRef 199432A002894
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 10 June 1995
51 m awayRef 199532A004295
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 27 May 1989
56 m awayRef 198932A040889
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 15 December 2005
57 m awayRef 200532C083905
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 29 April 1999
59 m awayRef 199932C003339
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 23 April 1993
60 m awayRef 199332A003043
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2018320316205 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.