C road crash in Peterborough PE3 on 12 March 1997 at 16:45 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on a C road in Peterborough at 16:45 on Wednesday 12 March 1997. The 33-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 309 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 1997
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 309 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59685, longitude -0.26993, in the PE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997350128997
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 47
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 December 1995.
Serious
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on a C road in Peterborough, 18 December 1995
At the same spotRef 1995350613095
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Peterborough, 10 August 2001
10 m awayRef 2001350404301
Serious
Yamaha crash on a C road in Peterborough, 9 April 1991
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
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 1997350128997 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.