C road crash in Peterborough PE4 on 7 May 2010 at 23:30 involving a London Taxis Int. TX4
A motorcycle and a London Taxis Int. TX4 were involved in a crash on a C road in Peterborough at 23:30 on Friday 7 May 2010. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 2010
- Friday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and London Taxis Int. TX4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60259, longitude -0.2527, in the PE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010351069310
- 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
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2006.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on a C road in Peterborough, 7 June 2006
10 m awayRef 2006350248106
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Peterborough, 20 October 2000
22 m awayRef 2000350487000
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on a C road in Peterborough, 28 March 2001
36 m awayRef 2001350164901
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on a C road in Peterborough, 6 March 2003
36 m awayRef 2003350131703
Slight
Ford Granada crash on a C road in Peterborough, 7 October 1999
42 m awayRef 1999350445199
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Peterborough, 7 March 1998
45 m awayRef 1998350120398
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: London Taxis Int. TX4
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2010351069310 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 2010.