Serious C road crash in Peterborough PE6 on 22 June 1997 at 16:40 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 crashed on a C road in Peterborough at 16:40 on Sunday 22 June 1997. There were five casualties: one person was seriously injured and four were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jun 1997
- Sunday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63292, longitude -0.10093, in the PE6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997350308397
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 1993.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on a C road in Peterborough, 28 December 1993
72 m awayRef 1993350644593
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 29 March 2019
212 m awayRef 2019350833815
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 2 April 2021
237 m awayRef 2021351042546
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Peterborough, 28 November 2001
246 m awayRef 2001350606901
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Peterborough, 8 April 1990
251 m awayRef 1990351108190
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Peterborough, 3 July 1993
259 m awayRef 1993350304893
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1997350308397 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.