Serious B1434 crash in West Lindsey on 4 February 2023 at 19:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1434 in West Lindsey at 19:45 on Saturday 4 February 2023. The 40-year-old male driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Feb 2023
- Saturday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48794, longitude -0.39758, in the LN7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023320073747
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1434
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 17 March 1990
28 m awayRef 199032E017290
Fatal
Vehicle crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 30 August 1987
145 m awayRef 198732E072187
Serious
Mercedes 300 crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 3 February 1999
185 m awayRef 199932E000769
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 9 January 2024
321 m awayRef 2024320017062
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 25 October 2009
571 m awayRef 200932D318709
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the B1434 in West Lindsey, 7 January 2016
587 m awayRef 2016320003241
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2023320073747 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 2023.