A46 crash in West Lindsey on 21 September 2018 at 11:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the A46 in West Lindsey at 11:05 on Friday 21 September 2018. The 78-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 2018
- Friday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46213, longitude -0.3557, in the LN7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018320452678
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- 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 with 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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2023.
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 28 December 2023
9 m awayRef 2023320793714
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 1 June 2014
12 m awayRef 2014320024061
Slight
Triumph Daytona crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 6 April 2025
13 m awayRef 2025320198980
Serious
Land Rover Defender crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 26 October 2001
21 m awayRef 200132D142501
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 23 April 2006
22 m awayRef 200632D110406
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A46 in West Lindsey, 26 December 2014
33 m awayRef 2014320064816
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Tram or light rail track
- 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
- 78 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018320452678 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 2018.