Serious A1119 crash in Peterborough on 20 February 1997 at 13:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A1119 in Peterborough at 13:40 on Thursday 20 February 1997. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Feb 1997
- Thursday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57737, longitude -0.23587, in the PE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997350094697
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1119
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Peterborough, 11 June 2012
10 m awayRef 2012350259912
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A1119 in Peterborough, 6 March 1996
10 m awayRef 1996350127696
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A1119 in Peterborough, 23 June 1999
10 m awayRef 1999350278499
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 9 March 2024
10 m awayRef 2024351419217
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A1119 in Peterborough, 20 November 1996
14 m awayRef 1996350562696
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1119 in Peterborough, 23 December 2005
14 m awayRef 2005350660505
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1997350094697 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.