Serious C road crash in Peterborough PE6 on 21 February 1998 at 23:25 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on a C road in Peterborough at 23:25 on Saturday 21 February 1998. An 18-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Feb 1998
- Saturday, 23:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65938, longitude -0.32957, in the PE6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998350092898
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 2005.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Peterborough, 28 January 2005
22 m awayRef 2005350058305
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Peterborough, 10 January 1995
36 m awayRef 1995350011695
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Peterborough, 30 August 1984
63 m awayRef 1984351219184
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 3 February 1998
73 m awayRef 1998350064398
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 5 February 1989
82 m awayRef 1989351037789
Serious
Ford Capri crash on the A18 in West Lindsey, 14 December 1992
100 m awayRef 199232E068792
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- 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 1998350092898 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 1998.