A17 crash in Boston on 20 December 2025 at 17:00 involving a Mercedes AMG Class
A car, a Mercedes AMG Class and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the A17 in Boston at 17:00 on Saturday 20 December 2025. The 67-year-old female driver of the Mercedes AMG Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2025
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes AMG Class and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.93094, longitude -0.05067, in the PE20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kirton and Frampton, Boston, PE20 1HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Boston
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025320743161
- Council area
- Boston
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 17
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 86 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A16 in Boston, 10 November 2000
86 m awayRef 200032C013080
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A16 in Boston, 21 October 2021
147 m awayRef 2021320612060
Slight
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 11 January 1991
158 m awayRef 199132A003791
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A16 in Boston, 15 November 1993
179 m awayRef 199332A009093
Slight
Mitsubishi Galant crash on an unclassified road in Boston, 20 June 2003
204 m awayRef 200332C103503
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A16 in Boston, 25 April 2021
218 m awayRef 2021320228426
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes AMG Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 3: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes AMG Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025320743161 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Boston road accident statistics for 2025.