A16 crash in East Lindsey on 7 April 2025 at 20:20 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Saab 9-3 were involved in a crash on the A16 in East Lindsey at 20:20 on Monday 7 April 2025. The 28-year-old female driver of the Saab 9-3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Monday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.15687, longitude 0.06337, in the PE23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025320201776
- 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
- 16
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a fatal crash on 6 December 1997.
Fatal
Peugeot 505 crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 6 December 1997
41 m awayRef 199732C008927
Slight
BMW 6 Series crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 20 July 1994
41 m awayRef 199432C005364
Slight
Leyland DAF FT 75 crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 15 October 1998
52 m awayRef 199832C008928
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 29 April 2004
52 m awayRef 200432C049704
Serious
Kawasaki ZR900 crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 9 August 2020
55 m awayRef 2020320412315
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A16 in East Lindsey, 28 August 2004
61 m awayRef 200432C114704
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- 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
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Saab 9-3
Car
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 9-3)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2025320201776 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 2025.