Three arrests after driver crashes into road closed sign in Deeping
Three people have been arrested following a collision in West Deeping where a driver of a car hit a road closed sign on Tuesday morning (June 2).
Emergency services were called to a collision at the junction of the A1175 Stamford Road with King Street, West Deeping, just after 7.45am. Three vehicles were involved, a black Lexmoto motorcycle, a black Nissan NP300 and a white Volkswagen Touareg.
The driver of the VW Touareg and the rider of the motorcycle were travelling in the Market Deeping direction, the Nissan NP300 was travelling towards Tallington.
The rider of the motorcycle, a man in his 20s has been taken to hospital with injuries described as serious. One of the drivers, a 28-year-old-man has been arrested on suspicion of causing injury by careless or inconsiderate driving and obstruct police, he remains in custody.
Road closures were put in place following the collision to allow medical care and to enable an investigation into the cause of the collision to start.
Just after midday officers saw a blue Vauxhall Astra collide with one of the road closure signs.
The driver of the car, a 26-year-old woman was seen to turn their vehicle around and drive off. Officers followed and the driver failed to stop when requested to do so.
The driver was forced to stop at the level crossing on Main Road, Tallington as the barriers were down due to an expected train.
She has been arrested on suspicion of failing to stop, driving over the legal drink drive limit and theft of the car. A passenger, a 39-year-man was also arrested on suspicion of theft of the car; they remain in custody. Anyone who has any information or recorded footage that will help with our investigation has been asked to contact the Investigating Officer by email at force.control or by calling 101 and quoting incident 76 of 2 June 2026.