B198 crash in Fenland on 7 December 2016 at 19:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the B198 in Fenland at 19:10 on Wednesday 7 December 2016. The 33-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65085, longitude 0.14393, in the PE14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wisbech. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wisbech South, Fenland, PE14 0SE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016350138261
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 198
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 November 2008.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the B198 in Fenland, 4 November 2008
8 m awayRef 2008350398108
Slight
Minibus crash on the B198 in Fenland, 7 August 1994
14 m awayRef 1994350360994
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B198 in Fenland, 23 October 2005
23 m awayRef 2005350526205
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 2 June 2017
31 m awayRef 2017350190987
Slight
Honda Insight crash on the B198 in Fenland, 5 December 2019
32 m awayRef 2019350915961
Serious
Yamaha FZ6 crash on the B198 in Fenland, 12 December 2009
37 m awayRef 2009352583909
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2016350138261 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fenland road accident statistics for 2016.