A631 crash in West Lindsey on 21 October 2020 at 09:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Nissan Juke were involved in a crash on the A631 in West Lindsey at 09:00 on Wednesday 21 October 2020. The 47-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2020
- Wednesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Nissan Juke
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40418, longitude -0.74114, in the DN21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gainsborough East, West Lindsey, DN21 1QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020320558445
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1433
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 19 October 2010
8 m awayRef 201032D308410
Slight
Car crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 14 October 2015
9 m awayRef 2015320106652
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 14 September 2006
16 m awayRef 200632D275306
Fatal
Car crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 11 January 1983
16 m awayRef 198332D004583
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 12 April 2013
17 m awayRef 201332L133413
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 3 July 2011
18 m awayRef 201132L181311
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Juke
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020320558445 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.