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Unclassified road crash in Peterborough PE1 on 16 May 1997 at 19:45 involving a Rover Montego taxi

A Rover Montego taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 19:45 on Friday 16 May 1997. An 8-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
16 May 1997
Friday, 19:45
Vehicles
1
Rover Montego
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5888, longitude -0.21238, in the PE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough.

Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997350239997
Council area
Peterborough
Police force
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover Montego

    Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover Montego)

    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 1997350239997 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.