Fatal A1073 crash in Peterborough on 3 August 2002 at 11:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A1073 in Peterborough at 11:45 on Saturday 3 August 2002. A 51-year-old female pedestrian was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 3 Aug 2002
- Saturday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64006, longitude -0.17967, in the PE6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eye, Thorney and Newborough, Peterborough, PE6 7RL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002350386902
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1073
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 2023.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 17 June 2023
24 m awayRef 2023351321246
Slight
Talbot Solara crash on the A1073 in Peterborough, 15 June 1998
30 m awayRef 1998350295198
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1073 in Peterborough, 13 October 2002
41 m awayRef 2002350518902
Slight
Car crash on the A1073 in Peterborough, 10 August 1987
50 m awayRef 1987351230587
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A1073 in Peterborough, 16 January 2009
60 m awayRef 2009350020409
Fatal
Renault 19 crash on the A1073 in Peterborough, 1 May 2002
63 m awayRef 2002350213402
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalFemale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2002350386902 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.