A17 crash in Boston on 3 December 2020 at 15:10 involving a Kia Rio
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2020
- Thursday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Rio and MAN
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97598, longitude -0.2021, in the PE20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020320640620
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 17
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
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, 120 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 2004.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A17 in Boston, 12 November 2004
120 m awayRef 200432B181804
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A17 in North Kesteven, 16 October 1993
122 m awayRef 199332B008443
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A17 in North Kesteven, 26 February 1979
170 m awayRef 197932B023979
Serious
Car crash on the A17 in Boston, 28 January 1984
181 m awayRef 198432A011184
Slight
Scooter crash on the A17 in Boston, 28 March 1986
197 m awayRef 198632A031886
Slight
Car crash on the A17 in Boston, 20 March 1985
291 m awayRef 198532A032285
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: MAN
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,419 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Rio)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020320640620 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Boston road accident statistics for 2020.