A1260 crash in Peterborough on 23 September 2012 at 16:15 involving a Kia Sorento
A Kia Sorento crashed on the A1260 in Peterborough at 16:15 on Sunday 23 September 2012. The 60-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2012
- Sunday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Sorento
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5473, longitude -0.26551, in the PE2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Orton Longueville, Peterborough, PE2 5QD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012350435612
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1260
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 1992.
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on the A1260 in Peterborough, 12 March 1992
At the same spotRef 1992351075892
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Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A1260 in Peterborough, 20 December 2016
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Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A1260 in Peterborough, 17 November 2014
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Slight
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Slight
Scania crash on the A1260 in Peterborough, 19 July 2015
22 m awayRef 2015350118415
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Sorento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Sorento)
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 2012350435612 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 2012.