Serious C road crash in Boston PE21 on 24 December 2020 at 08:08 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Suzuki Alto were involved in a crash on a C road in Boston at 08:08 on Thursday 24 December 2020. The 61-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Alto was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 2020
- Thursday, 08:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Suzuki Alto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95003, longitude -0.03669, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wyberton, Boston, PE21 7FZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020320681346
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 2012.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Boston, 27 February 2012
25 m awayRef 201232B052012
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 25 October 2002
43 m awayRef 200232C160202
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A16 in Boston, 12 June 2010
50 m awayRef 201032C167010
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A16 in Boston, 6 December 2006
56 m awayRef 200632C385306
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A16 in Boston, 23 May 2002
57 m awayRef 200232C069002
Serious
Subaru Impreza crash on the A16 in Boston, 29 January 2013
57 m awayRef 201332B036813
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Alto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Alto)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020320681346 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.