A18 crash in North Lincolnshire on 19 March 2020 at 17:50 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Vauxhall Combo van were involved in a crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire at 17:50 on Thursday 19 March 2020. The male driver of the Vauxhall Combo van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 2020
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.56569, longitude -0.61274, in the DN16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashby Lakeside, North Lincolnshire, DN16 3UW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lincolnshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020160945128
- Council area
- North Lincolnshire
- Police force
- Humberside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 18
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 24 November 1989
34 m awayRef 198916D101341
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 23 December 2018
42 m awayRef 2018160807191
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 14 February 2002
48 m awayRef 200216B005202
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 31 October 2004
60 m awayRef 2004160B05040
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 25 January 2001
64 m awayRef 200116B003901
Slight
Proton Impian crash on the A18 in North Lincolnshire, 6 April 2009
64 m awayRef 2009160B01470
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
- 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 2020160945128 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Lincolnshire road accident statistics for 2020.