Serious unclassified road crash in Peterborough PE1 on 28 October 2014 at 20:50 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A Volkswagen Touran hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 20:50 on Tuesday 28 October 2014. A 55-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Oct 2014
- Tuesday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Touran
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58223, longitude -0.24436, in the PE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Peterborough, PE1 2BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014350182114
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 April 2001.
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Huntingdonshire, 19 April 2001
10 m awayRef 2001350202001
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 19 February 2004
10 m awayRef 2004350088704
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 3 August 1994
14 m awayRef 1994350353994
Slight
Bedford 6CWT crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 8 May 1991
14 m awayRef 1991351126091
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 1 August 2003
14 m awayRef 2003350491103
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 27 November 2005
20 m awayRef 2005350599805
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Touran)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2014350182114 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 2014.