A1139 crash in Peterborough on 11 February 2000 at 18:40 involving a Mercedes 300
A Mercedes 300 crashed on the A1139 in Peterborough at 18:40 on Friday 11 February 2000. The 69-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2000
- Friday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes 300
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54559, longitude -0.26543, in the PE2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000350066900
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1139
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
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The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 2018.
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Ford Escort crash on the A1139 in Peterborough, 28 December 1999
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1139 in Peterborough, 7 October 1993
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Car crash on the A1260 in Peterborough, 8 May 1988
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes 300
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,839 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes 300)
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 2000350066900 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 2000.