diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c5a156b..df88455 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ trace = []
 [dependencies]
 time = "~0.1.0"
 bitflags = "0.7"
-lru-cache = "0.0.7"
+lru-cache = "0.1.0"
 libc = "~0.2"
 chrono = { version = "~0.2", optional = true }
 serde_json = { version = "0.6", optional = true }
diff --git a/src/cache.rs b/src/cache.rs
index d246e8e..cba4e75 100644
--- a/src/cache.rs
+++ b/src/cache.rs
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ impl Connection {
     pub fn set_prepared_statement_cache_capacity(&self, capacity: usize) {
         self.cache.set_capacity(capacity)
     }
+
+    pub fn flush_prepared_statement_cache(&self) {
+        self.cache.flush()
+    }
 }
 
 /// Prepared statements LRU cache.
@@ -133,6 +137,11 @@ impl StatementCache {
         let sql = String::from_utf8_lossy(stmt.sql().to_bytes()).to_string();
         cache.insert(sql, stmt);
     }
+
+    fn flush(&self) {
+        let mut cache = self.0.borrow_mut();
+        cache.clear()
+    }
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
@@ -268,4 +277,12 @@ mod test {
                            .unwrap());
         }
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_connection_close() {
+        let conn = Connection::open_in_memory().unwrap();
+        conn.prepare_cached("SELECT * FROM sqlite_master;").unwrap();
+
+        conn.close().expect("connection not closed");
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 50cf7e9..4a9d53b 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ impl Connection {
     ///
     /// Will return `Err` if the underlying SQLite call fails.
     pub fn close(self) -> Result<()> {
+        self.flush_prepared_statement_cache();
         let mut db = self.db.borrow_mut();
         db.close()
     }