Unclassified road crash in Peterborough PE2 on 20 December 2008 at 06:30 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 06:30 on Saturday 20 December 2008. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2008
- Saturday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54452, longitude -0.30928, in the PE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Orton Waterville, Peterborough, PE2 5LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008358052808
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1991.
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Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 18 December 1991
14 m awayRef 1991351370291
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 23 November 2018
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Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 16 October 2008
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Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 24 April 2005
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Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 29 February 2000
64 m awayRef 2000350100400
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 29 November 1994
94 m awayRef 1994350567394
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 2008358052808 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.