C road crash in Peterborough PE1 on 5 November 2008 at 07:11 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in Peterborough at 07:11 on Wednesday 5 November 2008. The 54-year-old female driver of the Skoda Fabia and the 37-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2008
- Wednesday, 07:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Fabia and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58921, longitude -0.19433, in the PE1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the East, Peterborough, PE1 5NB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008350398908
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 October 2013.
Serious
Citroen Relay crash on a C road in Peterborough, 30 October 2013
10 m awayRef 2013353095913
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Peterborough, 18 February 2010
10 m awayRef 2010350379810
Slight
Rover Metro crash on a C road in Peterborough, 28 December 1999
10 m awayRef 1999350600899
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Peterborough, 12 October 2001
10 m awayRef 2001350506801
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Peterborough, 29 March 1999
10 m awayRef 1999350140999
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Peterborough, 20 December 2007
10 m awayRef 2007350545207
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2008350398908 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.