A15 crash in Peterborough on 24 October 2003 at 13:39 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A15 in Peterborough at 13:39 on Friday 24 October 2003. The 24-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2003
- Friday, 13:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59961, longitude -0.26404, in the PE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the North, Peterborough, PE1 2HS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003350563203
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 15
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2002.
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 13 March 2002
At the same spotRef 2002350129102
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Nissan Silvia crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 24 July 1994
At the same spotRef 1994350337594
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Kia Rio crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 9 December 2020
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 2 October 2024
9 m awayRef 2024351500435
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Toyota Corolla crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 25 June 2008
10 m awayRef 2008350222008
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Renault 5 crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 27 August 1996
10 m awayRef 1996350401696
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 2003350563203 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 2003.