A15 crash in Peterborough on 27 December 1979 at 17:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A15 in Peterborough at 17:05 on Thursday 27 December 1979. The 39-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1979
- Thursday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979355135079
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 15
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 39, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1979355135079 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.