Unclassified road crash in Peterborough PE2 on 24 December 2005 at 11:00 involving a Volvo bus
A car and a Volvo bus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 11:00 on Saturday 24 December 2005. The 22-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2005
- Saturday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55679, longitude -0.25673, in the PE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fletton and Woodston, Peterborough, PE2 9HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005350659205
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 1993.
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 20 April 1993
At the same spotRef 1993350224093
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 18 July 1996
20 m awayRef 1996350337396
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 5 January 1989
36 m awayRef 1989351003789
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 2 February 1997
50 m awayRef 1997350054997
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 29 July 2001
51 m awayRef 2001350381001
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 13 October 2004
64 m awayRef 2004350525404
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2005350659205 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 2005.