A15 crash in Peterborough on 16 February 1997 at 14:10 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A15 in Peterborough at 14:10 on Sunday 16 February 1997. A 20-year-old female passenger and a 47-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 1997
- Sunday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63804, longitude -0.30836, in the PE6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997350083697
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 15
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 January 2005.
Serious
Scania crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 27 January 2005
10 m awayRef 2005350047805
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 11 May 2002
10 m awayRef 2002350255202
Slight
Bedford crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 24 December 1997
10 m awayRef 1997350687797
Serious
MG TF crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 26 August 2016
10 m awayRef 2016350108506
Slight
Mitsubishi Space Wagon crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 17 September 1996
14 m awayRef 1996350433596
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 16 December 2000
20 m awayRef 2000350615300
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- 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 1997350083697 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 1997.