Unclassified road crash in Peterborough PE3 on 8 September 2016 at 19:20 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van and a Nissan Almera were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 19:20 on Thursday 8 September 2016. The female driver of the Ford Transit Connect van, the 24-year-old male driver of the Nissan Almera and a 27-year-old male passenger in the Nissan Almera were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 2016
- Thursday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5758, longitude -0.26696, in the PE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ravensthorpe, Peterborough, PE3 9DY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016350114470
- 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
- Other junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 76 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 December 1985.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Peterborough, 31 December 1985
76 m awayRef 1985351382485
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 19 November 2025
158 m awayRef 2025351678554
Slight
Car crash on the A1179 in Peterborough, 20 July 1989
171 m awayRef 1989351219489
Slight
Car crash on the A1179 in Peterborough, 12 June 1987
171 m awayRef 1987351168287
Serious
Car crash on the A1179 in Peterborough, 23 February 1984
171 m awayRef 1984351051684
Slight
Taxi crash on the A1125 in Peterborough, 31 October 1989
190 m awayRef 1989351343289
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Connect)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Almera)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Almera)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016350114470 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 2016.