A15 crash in Peterborough on 20 December 2013 at 08:55 involving a Piaggio Zip motorcycle
A car and a Piaggio Zip motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A15 in Peterborough at 08:55 on Friday 20 December 2013. The 20-year-old female rider of the Piaggio Zip motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2013
- Friday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Piaggio Zip
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60116, longitude -0.26545, in the PE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the North, Peterborough, PE1 2HS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013353174013
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 1992.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 28 March 1992
10 m awayRef 1992351091092
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 24 November 2000
10 m awayRef 2000350564400
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 28 September 2000
14 m awayRef 2000350442100
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 29 November 2025
14 m awayRef 2025351675816
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 15 May 2023
21 m awayRef 2023351308926
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 9 December 2017
21 m awayRef 2017350257181
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Zip
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 20, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Zip)
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 2013353174013 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.