Serious A15 crash in North Kesteven on 6 December 2025 at 23:30 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a Volkswagen CC were involved in a crash on the A15 in North Kesteven at 23:30 on Saturday 6 December 2025. The 20-year-old male driver of the Audi A3 was seriously injured and the 49-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen CC was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Dec 2025
- Saturday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and Volkswagen CC
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.06082, longitude -0.45534, in the NG34 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cranwell, Leasingham & Wilsford, North Kesteven, NG34 8RH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025320714295
- Council area
- North Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 15
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2017.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A15 in North Kesteven, 29 October 2017
2 m awayRef 2017320467331
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A15 in North Kesteven, 17 December 2006
5 m awayRef 200632B409206
Slight
Van crash on the A15 in North Kesteven, 16 July 2004
14 m awayRef 200432B110804
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A15 in North Kesteven, 7 December 2023
18 m awayRef 2023320752923
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A15 in North Kesteven, 13 October 2013
19 m awayRef 201332N381313
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A15 in North Kesteven, 2 September 2016
20 m awayRef 2016320274630
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen CC
Car
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen CC)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2025320714295 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Kesteven road accident statistics for 2025.