A631 crash in West Lindsey on 9 September 2020 at 21:15 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A631 in West Lindsey at 21:15 on Wednesday 9 September 2020. A 38-year-old female passenger and the 39-year-old male driver were 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
- 9 Sep 2020
- Wednesday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.3935, longitude -0.54918, in the LN8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hemswell, West Lindsey, LN8 2AS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020320473355
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 631
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 1999.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 17 July 1999
22 m awayRef 199932D009199
Serious
Honda crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 5 July 1997
25 m awayRef 199732E002727
Serious
Talbot Alpine crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 5 January 1992
25 m awayRef 199232E000792
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 4 September 2014
30 m awayRef 2014320051755
Slight
Aprilia crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 20 August 2003
58 m awayRef 200332D125603
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 30 December 2011
58 m awayRef 201132L388511
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020320473355 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 2020.