A141 crash in Fenland on 15 March 2008 at 00:30 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 and a Yamaha R6 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A141 in Fenland at 00:30 on Saturday 15 March 2008. The 19-year-old male rider of the Yamaha R6 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 2008
- Saturday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 106 and Yamaha R6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55831, longitude 0.06789, in the PE15 postcode district and within the built-up area of March. It is one of the crashes that make up the March West & Benwick, Fenland, PE15 8FR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008350096708
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 141
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1099
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 2006.
Slight
Scania crash on the A141 in Fenland, 16 September 2006
10 m awayRef 2006350412206
Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on the A141 in Fenland, 7 October 2025
13 m awayRef 2025351657133
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on the A141 in Fenland, 9 December 2024
14 m awayRef 2024351530589
Slight
Car crash on the A141 in Fenland, 11 July 2006
14 m awayRef 2006350304206
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A141 in Fenland, 3 December 2008
14 m awayRef 2008350821408
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A141 in Fenland, 25 January 1990
14 m awayRef 1990351026890
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha R6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha R6)
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 2008350096708 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 2008.