Unclassified road crash in Peterborough PE4 on 21 May 2008 at 17:45 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406, a Honda CBF500 motorcycle and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 17:45 on Wednesday 21 May 2008. The 30-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF500 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 May 2008
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 406 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61251, longitude -0.24891, in the PE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gunthorpe, Peterborough, PE4 7GF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008350184308
- 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
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 24 July 2008
14 m awayRef 2008350260908
Slight
Audi A6 crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 12 December 2025
17 m awayRef 2025351682585
Serious
Rover Cityrover crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 7 July 2016
20 m awayRef 2016350102924
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 1 December 1996
20 m awayRef 1996350587096
Slight
Honda CRV crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 4 October 2016
21 m awayRef 2016350122495
Slight
Audi TT crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 3 June 2019
22 m awayRef 2019350844785
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBF500
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBF500)
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 2008350184308 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 2008.