Unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 8 July 2018 at 11:15 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Boston at 11:15 on Sunday 8 July 2018. The 45-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2018
- Sunday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97647, longitude -0.03524, 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
- 2018320320125
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 45 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 45, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2018320320125 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.