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Serious unclassified road crash in Peterborough PE6 on 22 December 1980 at 17:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 17:30 on Monday 22 December 1980. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
22 Dec 1980
Monday, 17:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67798, longitude -0.22353, in the PE6 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980351327680
Council area
Peterborough
Police force
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Other
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 371 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 December 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    37 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1980351327680 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 1980.