A16 crash in East Lindsey on 30 November 2018 at 07:45 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A16 in East Lindsey at 07:45 on Friday 30 November 2018. A 28-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2018
- Friday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48106, longitude -0.06749, in the DN36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018320579601
- Council area
- East Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 16
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 July 2025.
Serious
Yamaha GPD crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 28 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025320442700
Serious
Car crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 27 January 1988
60 m awayRef 198832C007488
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 5 August 2011
60 m awayRef 201132E220311
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 20 March 2019
72 m awayRef 2019320142869
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 19 August 2012
96 m awayRef 201232E233212
Slight
Car crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 27 March 1987
112 m awayRef 198732C020887
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018320579601 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Lindsey road accident statistics for 2018.