A15 crash in Peterborough on 31 May 1998 at 09:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A15 in Peterborough at 09:35 on Sunday 31 May 1998. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 1998
- Sunday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63786, longitude -0.30851, in the PE6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998350259198
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 15
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- A
- Second road number
- 15
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2008.
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Nissan Micra crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 7 September 2008
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Honda Civic crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 16 December 2000
10 m awayRef 2000350615300
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Citroen Xsara crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 13 August 2008
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Bedford crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 24 December 1997
14 m awayRef 1997350687797
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 29 July 2007
14 m awayRef 2007350317007
Serious
MG TF crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 26 August 2016
16 m awayRef 2016350108506
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1998350259198 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.