A1139 crash in Peterborough on 5 December 1997 at 13:55 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on the A1139 in Peterborough at 13:55 on Friday 5 December 1997. The 48-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 106 and a 19-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 106 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 1997
- Friday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59857, longitude -0.21036, in the PE1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997350650497
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1139
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2006.
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A1139 in Peterborough, 8 May 2006
At the same spotRef 2006350194906
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the A1139 in Peterborough, 28 March 2015
At the same spotRef 2015350066415
Slight
Nissan Ariya crash on the A1139 in Peterborough, 22 September 2025
4 m awayRef 2025351647747
Serious
Peugeot 307 crash on the A1139 in Peterborough, 6 August 2021
9 m awayRef 2021351077542
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 3 February 1991
10 m awayRef 1991351035491
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A1139 in Peterborough, 22 April 2009
10 m awayRef 2009350126009
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 106)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 106)
- 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 1997350650497 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.