A52 crash in East Lindsey on 6 May 2023 at 16:15 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on the A52 in East Lindsey at 16:15 on Saturday 6 May 2023. A 7-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 2023
- Saturday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.05309, longitude 0.17723, in the PE22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Friskney, East Lindsey, PE22 8QS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023320274451
- Council area
- East Lindsey
- 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
- 50 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
- Raining, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2025.
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A52 in East Lindsey, 2 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025320642329
Serious
Peugeot Expert crash on the A52 in East Lindsey, 26 July 2022
6 m awayRef 2022320462193
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A52 in East Lindsey, 14 November 2017
7 m awayRef 2017320495354
Slight
HGV crash on the A52 in East Lindsey, 6 March 2006
8 m awayRef 200632C011506
Slight
Harley-Davidson 1200 Custom crash on the A52 in East Lindsey, 31 May 2004
9 m awayRef 200432C069904
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in East Lindsey, 2 July 2019
17 m awayRef 2019320343644
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2023320274451 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Lindsey road accident statistics for 2023.