Unclassified road crash in Peterborough PE1 on 5 September 2008 at 17:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 17:20 on Friday 5 September 2008. The 44-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2008
- Friday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58387, longitude -0.24547, in the PE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Peterborough, PE1 2BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008350314708
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2008350314708 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.