A1073 crash in Peterborough on 29 February 1996 at 13:05 involving a Rover Maestro
A Rover Maestro and a Volvo 340 were involved in a crash on the A1073 in Peterborough at 13:05 on Thursday 29 February 1996. The 36-year-old male driver of the Rover Maestro was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Feb 1996
- Thursday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Maestro and Volvo 340
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6179, longitude -0.18682, in the PE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eye.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996350117396
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1073
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1992.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A1073 in Peterborough, 25 November 1992
22 m awayRef 1992351345792
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1073 in Peterborough, 15 May 1990
41 m awayRef 1990351146890
Serious
Volkswagen Motor Caravan crash on the A1073 in Peterborough, 6 July 1992
41 m awayRef 1992351182092
Slight
Ford Ecosport crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 12 June 2021
47 m awayRef 2021351055239
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 28 November 2025
57 m awayRef 2025351675371
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1073 in Peterborough, 28 November 2003
80 m awayRef 2003350645003
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 340
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Maestro)
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 1996350117396 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 1996.