A52 crash in Boston on 21 January 2023 at 14:02 involving a Honda HR-V
A Honda HR-V, a Nissan Qashqai and a car were involved in a crash on the A52 in Boston at 14:02 on Saturday 21 January 2023. The 22-year-old female driver of the Nissan Qashqai and the 21-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2023
- Saturday, 14:02
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda HR-V and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97548, longitude -0.04777, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fenside, Boston, PE21 8HJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023320042285
- 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
- 52
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 November 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 30 November 1979
17 m awayRef 197932A128079
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 5 November 1984
17 m awayRef 198432A125784
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A52 in Boston, 5 November 1997
27 m awayRef 199732A009177
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 21 February 1985
27 m awayRef 198532A022985
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A52 in Boston, 20 June 2003
30 m awayRef 200332C087403
Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Boston, 15 July 1988
33 m awayRef 198832A085688
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda HR-V
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
- 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 2023320042285 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 2023.