A47 crash in Peterborough on 3 March 1989 at 12:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A47 in Peterborough at 12:30 on Friday 3 March 1989. The 27-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Mar 1989
- Friday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61416, longitude -0.16556, in the PE6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989351069089
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 47
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 September 1982.
Serious
Lorry crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 22 September 1982
At the same spotRef 1982351232582
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 16 December 1986
100 m awayRef 1986351378686
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 11 March 1997
108 m awayRef 1997350128497
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 2 August 2023
120 m awayRef 2023351341697
Serious
Scooter crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 9 June 1988
141 m awayRef 1988351223788
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 27 June 1986
141 m awayRef 1986351177286
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1989351069089 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 1989.