A17 crash in Boston on 26 February 2023 at 11:25 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2023
- Sunday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- DAF Trucks
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.8885, longitude -0.08138, in the PE20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Five Village, Boston, PE20 2LF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023320120994
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Midi crash on the A17 in Boston, 16 December 2003
27 m awayRef 200332C189103
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A17 in Boston, 17 April 1995
41 m awayRef 199532A002805
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A17 in Boston, 30 April 2011
77 m awayRef 201132C110911
Serious
Van crash on the A17 in Boston, 21 April 1982
93 m awayRef 198232A042282
Serious
Car crash on the A17 in Boston, 30 July 1989
93 m awayRef 198932A061889
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A17 in Boston, 1 June 2015
117 m awayRef 2015320039605
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 10,837 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (DAF Trucks)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2023320120994 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.