Serious A1 crash in South Kesteven on 12 September 2025 at 12:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a MAN lorry were involved in a crash on the A1 in South Kesteven at 12:30 on Friday 12 September 2025. A 78-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus was seriously injured and the 48-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Sep 2025
- Friday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and MAN
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.864, longitude -0.62968, in the NG33 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Isaac Newton, South Kesteven, NG33 5AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025320539068
- Council area
- South Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2007.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 14 November 2007
21 m awayRef 200732B394407
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 28 October 2024
22 m awayRef 2024320641912
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 10 July 2022
25 m awayRef 2022320397640
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 9 July 2022
32 m awayRef 2022320394976
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 2 May 2024
40 m awayRef 2024320256836
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1 in South Kesteven, 25 October 2021
42 m awayRef 2021320621416
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: MAN
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,037 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2025320539068 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Kesteven road accident statistics for 2025.