Daniel Ionescu

A woman who was seriously injured in a double fatal crash on the A15 near Lincoln remains in hospital for treatment.

The 52-year-old Scunthorpe woman was seriously injured in the collision on Monday morning, August 25. She is described as being in a stable condition at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham.

As previously reported, two other people died in the incident, which happened just after 11am and involved a Land Rover Discovery and a Vauxhall Meriva.

The driver of the Land Rover, a 45-year-old man from Stainfield, was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 59-year-old man from Scunthorpe, who was the driver of the Vauxhall, was also pronounced dead at the scene.

Two other passengers in the car, a woman aged in her late 20s and a man in his early 20s, were injured, though not seriously, and were taken to Lincoln County Hospital for treatment.

Lincolnshire Police would like to hear from anyone who witnessed the collision or anyone who was travelling on the road and may have seen either of the vehicles.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Lincolnshire Police on 101 quoting incident 144 of 25/08/2014 or contact the Lincolnshire Police Collision Witness Hotline on 01522 558855.

Three contractors have been shortlisted and submitted their bids for a £10 million share of the £22 million East West Link Road project in Lincoln.

The East West Link Road will connect Tentercroft Street to Canwick Road and create an alternative route for cars away from the High Street level crossing, which will become increasingly more congested as Network Rail increase the volume of freight traffic passing through Lincoln city centre.

Three contractors have been invited to submit a tender: Balfour Beatty, Galliford Try/Aggregate Industries joint venture and Carillion/Lafarge Tarmac joint venture.

They had until August 26 to submit their bids before a full tender appraisal has been completed by Lincolnshire County Council. The “most advantageous” tender will win.

All of the contractors have prequalified for the Midlands Highways Alliance and are considered to be “eminently suitable” for this type of works.

The main contract includes earthworks, drainage, new highway, structures, street lighting and signs and markings.

It also includes the replacement building at the corner of the High Street and Tentercroft Street, which housed Gadsby’s art supplies store and Bridge McFarland Solicitors (who now moved on the High Street). Work has already started at the site to demolish the building.

The main £9.45 million contract covers all of the main aspects of the scheme with the exception of the traffic signals installation, which will be undertaken by LCC’s specialist contractor Imtech at a cost of £350,000.

Included in the total £22 million East West Link Road project are £850,000 design costs, £220,000 legal costs, £923,000 utility diversions costs (carried out by owning utility companies), land costs of £6.7 million, and £680,000 for site supervision.

The County Council also moved some £1.5 million from this budget towards contingency costs for the next large upcoming road scheme on Canwick Road.

Once the main contractor is selected, the project will take two years to complete.