C road crash in Fenland PE15 on 22 December 2002 at 16:05 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on a C road in Fenland at 16:05 on Sunday 22 December 2002. A 79-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2002
- Sunday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4927, longitude 0.04036, in the PE15 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002350682102
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 1993.
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in Fenland, 4 May 1993
10 m awayRef 1993350210293
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Fenland, 3 November 1992
14 m awayRef 1992351308592
Slight
Austin Mini crash on a C road in Fenland, 23 October 1998
36 m awayRef 1998350524498
Serious
Car crash on the A141 in Fenland, 29 April 1980
36 m awayRef 1980351109780
Serious
Mini One crash on a C road in Fenland, 24 July 2015
36 m awayRef 2015350117615
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Fenland, 5 October 1991
36 m awayRef 1991351275091
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2002350682102 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fenland road accident statistics for 2002.