Unclassified road crash in Peterborough on 24 December 1979 at 14:30 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 14:30 on Monday 24 December 1979. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 24 Dec 1979; Monday, 14:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1979355133679
Council area: Peterborough
Police force: Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 60 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
East
Travelling to
West
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
21 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 1979355133679 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.