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Serious A15 crash in Peterborough on 1 April 2013 at 12:40 involving a Honda VFR 1200 motorcycle

A Honda VFR 1200 motorcycle crashed on the A15 in Peterborough at 12:40 on Monday 1 April 2013. The 43-year-old male rider was seriously injured and a 39-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
1 Apr 2013
Monday, 12:40
Vehicles
1
Honda VFR 1200
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62321, longitude -0.26724, in the PE4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Werrington, Peterborough, PE4 6JX area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2013350123813
Council area
Peterborough
Police force
Cambridgeshire
Police attended the scene
Yes

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
15
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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
100%
Estimated chance it was slight
0%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 1998.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Honda VFR 1200

    Motorcycle over 500cc

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    Position at junction
    Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    43 years
    Engine capacity
    1,237 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda VFR 1200)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 39, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda VFR 1200)

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 2013350123813 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 2013.