A1260 crash in Peterborough on 12 March 1992 at 21:08 involving an Austin Allegro
An Austin Allegro crashed on the A1260 in Peterborough at 21:08 on Thursday 12 March 1992. A 17-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 1992
- Thursday, 21:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Allegro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54733, longitude -0.26554, in the PE2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992351075892
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1260
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Allegro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Allegro)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 1992351075892 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 1992.