Serious B1398 crash in West Lindsey on 5 August 2025 at 04:45 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on the B1398 in West Lindsey at 04:45 on Tuesday 5 August 2025. The 21-year-old female 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
- 5 Aug 2025
- Tuesday, 04:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37077, longitude -0.56638, in the DN21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025320457952
- 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
- 1398
- 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 18 January 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 18 January 1996
28 m awayRef 199632E000296
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 13 July 2014
31 m awayRef 2014320030853
Fatal
Car crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 21 December 1979
50 m awayRef 197932D190679
Slight
Van crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 14 August 1981
56 m awayRef 198132D113181
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 17 December 1992
56 m awayRef 199232E069392
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 18 October 2008
74 m awayRef 200832D301408
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025320457952 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 2025.