A15 crash in Peterborough on 21 January 2011 at 13:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A15 in Peterborough at 13:00 on Friday 21 January 2011. The 40-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2011
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55093, longitude -0.24915, in the PE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hargate and Hempsted, Peterborough, PE7 0LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011350168311
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 15
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2020.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 9 March 2020
12 m awayRef 2020350943691
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 7 May 2020
21 m awayRef 2020350952570
Slight
Kawasaki BR125 crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 18 June 2025
28 m awayRef 2025351610359
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 15 September 2009
60 m awayRef 2009350301209
Serious
Car crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 21 June 1985
71 m awayRef 1985351166185
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 3 October 2019
76 m awayRef 2019350893726
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 40, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2011350168311 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 2011.