B1443 crash in Peterborough on 16 December 2008 at 18:09 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the B1443 in Peterborough at 18:09 on Tuesday 16 December 2008. The 28-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic and the 49-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2008
- Tuesday, 18:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63842, longitude -0.20176, in the PE6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008350842608
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1443
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 1 July 1993.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B1443 in Peterborough, 1 July 1993
At the same spotRef 1993350302193
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B1443 in Peterborough, 26 October 1990
10 m awayRef 1990351326990
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B1443 in Peterborough, 24 February 1991
10 m awayRef 1991351053891
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B1443 in Peterborough, 18 November 2002
10 m awayRef 2002350597302
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1443 in Peterborough, 29 November 1994
10 m awayRef 1994350568294
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1443 in Peterborough, 10 August 2016
11 m awayRef 2016350104570
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, 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 2008350842608 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.