A47 crash in Peterborough on 22 December 1979 at 22:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A47 in Peterborough at 22:35 on Saturday 22 December 1979. A 79-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 and a 73-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 22:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979355132779
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 47
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1979355132779 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Peterborough road accident statistics for 1979.