A15 crash in Peterborough on 18 December 1990 at 17:22 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Bristol (BLMC) bus were involved in a crash on the A15 in Peterborough at 17:22 on Tuesday 18 December 1990. A 16-year-old female passenger in the Bristol (BLMC) bus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1990
- Tuesday, 17:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Bristol (BLMC)
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56488, longitude -0.24227, in the PE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990351405290
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 15
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2008.
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Serious
Citroen C1 crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 26 October 2023
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Dennis crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 19 June 1990
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Bristol (BLMC)
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Bristol (BLMC))
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 1990351405290 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 1990.