A15 crash in Peterborough on 5 January 2017 at 13:40 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A15 in Peterborough at 13:40 on Thursday 5 January 2017. The 27-year-old female driver of the Ford KA, the 38-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 2017
- Thursday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57319, longitude -0.24721, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017350152607
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2002.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 28 December 2002
10 m awayRef 2002350694402
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 13 March 2015
16 m awayRef 2015350027215
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 3 August 2012
16 m awayRef 2012350379212
Slight
Citroen XM crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 7 August 1997
18 m awayRef 1997350397197
Slight
Car crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 14 June 1985
18 m awayRef 1985351159385
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1179 in Peterborough, 27 October 1986
18 m awayRef 1986351306386
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2017350152607 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 2017.