A18 crash in East Lindsey on 1 February 2019 at 15:35 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A18 in East Lindsey at 15:35 on Friday 1 February 2019. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 2019
- Friday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44541, longitude -0.07745, 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
- 2019320054280
- 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
- 18
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 69 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 2013.
Slight
Car crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 12 July 2013
69 m awayRef 201332E247913
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 4 December 1999
123 m awayRef 199932C012589
Slight
Kia Soul crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 19 April 2019
187 m awayRef 2019320199472
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 25 August 1990
189 m awayRef 199032C067090
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 6 January 2017
202 m awayRef 2017320008248
Slight
Volvo crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 16 May 2019
204 m awayRef 2019320250164
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2019320054280 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 2019.