Serious C road crash in Peterborough PE6 on 31 December 2015 at 23:00 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Peterborough at 23:00 on Thursday 31 December 2015. The 29-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6129, longitude -0.17152, in the PE6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015350250015
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 January 1992.
Serious
Nissan Stanza crash on a C road in Peterborough, 1 January 1992
14 m awayRef 1992351000592
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on a C road in Peterborough, 26 November 1991
22 m awayRef 1991351338791
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 20 December 2003
41 m awayRef 2003350689503
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 2 November 1995
50 m awayRef 1995350509695
Slight
HGV crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 18 January 1999
50 m awayRef 1999350026699
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 22 July 2001
50 m awayRef 2001350372301
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2015350250015 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 2015.