A158 crash in East Lindsey on 6 November 2025 at 18:05 involving a Suzuki Alto
A Suzuki Alto and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A158 in East Lindsey at 18:05 on Thursday 6 November 2025. The 25-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Alto and the 65-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 2025
- Thursday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Alto and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2079, longitude -0.11461, in the LN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Horncastle. It is one of the crashes that make up the Horncastle, East Lindsey, LN9 6DX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025320653199
- 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
- 158
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 153
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 2013.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A158 in East Lindsey, 3 May 2013
1 m awayRef 201332E153213
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A158 in East Lindsey, 9 July 2024
2 m awayRef 2024320407660
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A153 in East Lindsey, 1 November 2013
5 m awayRef 201332E407913
Slight
Car crash on the A153 in East Lindsey, 3 March 1988
5 m awayRef 198832C020388
Slight
Citroen C5 crash on the A153 in East Lindsey, 10 February 2009
5 m awayRef 200932C040309
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A158 in East Lindsey, 10 October 2009
5 m awayRef 200932C289909
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Alto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Alto)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 2025320653199 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.