A16 crash in Boston on 23 February 2023 at 07:35 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2023
- Thursday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.95766, longitude -0.02976, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023320115510
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 16
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 2021.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A16 in Boston, 2 June 2021
3 m awayRef 2021320304810
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the B1397 in Boston, 20 January 2016
3 m awayRef 2016320009817
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A16 in Boston, 5 November 2021
6 m awayRef 2021320645045
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A16 in Boston, 5 June 2002
11 m awayRef 200232C075102
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 14 January 2009
11 m awayRef 200932C008909
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A16 in Boston, 1 September 2016
11 m awayRef 2016320262751
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 43, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2023320115510 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.