Personal Injury Lincolnshire
EIGHT people were hurt in two separate crashes around the county over the weekend.
One smash, involving four cars and a lorry, left a 43-year-old man with a serious head injury and another three needing hospital treatment.
It happened at 12.45pm on Saturday near a garage at Nocton Heath on the A15 south of Lincoln.
The road was closed between the B1178 and the B1202 for almost seven hours.
The man, who has not been named, was driving a Ford Escort.
He was described by staff at Lincoln County Hospital as being in a "serious" but stable condition yesterday.
The other three people injured in the accident were said to have minor injuries.
In addition to the HGV and the Ford Escort, a blue Audi A4 and two other cars were involved, although details of their make and model are not known.
In a separate incident on Friday, four people were injured after a taxi ploughed into a group pedestrians having mounted the pavement at Roman Bank, in the seaside resort of Ingoldmells, near Skegness at midnight.
A man and a woman who were walking on the pavement were both left with broken legs.
Sergeant Craig Dunderdale, of Lincolnshire Police, said: "At about midnight on Friday night a grey Fiat Scudo taxi mounted the kerb in Roman Bank at Ingoldmells.
"It collided with a number of pedestrians, injuring four.
"A man and woman received broken legs, a third person received a serious cut to their side and facial injuries and a fourth person received minor injuries.
"Police would ask for anyone with information on the collision to get in touch."
All four victims were taken to Boston Pilgrim Hospital to be treated for their injuries. Police would not confirm what had caused the driver to mount the kerb, but said everyone involved in a road accident is automatically breathalysed and that no arrests were made. The road was closed until just before 1am Saturday morning.
The Echo previously reported how a bus driver was jailed after killing five people when he ploughed into holidaymakers outside the Fantasy Island resort on Easter Sunday, 2004.
The driver mistook his accelerator of the double-decker bus for the brake in a devastating accident.
Anyone with information on the Nocton Heath crash should call Lincolnshire Police on 0300 1110300 quoting incident number 227 of July 30, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
Anyone who was in the Roman Bank area on Friday night or who saw the taxi leave the road and hit the pedestrians should call the same numbers, citing incident number 594 of July 29.
source: thisislincolnshire.co.uk
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