Serious unclassified road crash in Peterborough PE4 on 3 April 2002 at 17:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 17:00 on Wednesday 3 April 2002. The 10-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Apr 2002
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61239, longitude -0.2591, in the PE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Paston and Walton, Peterborough, PE4 6JF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002350164002
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2008.
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Fatal
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 2 October 1995
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 10, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2002350164002 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 2002.