Unclassified road crash in Peterborough PE2 on 3 July 2017 at 16:12 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 16:12 on Monday 3 July 2017. The 40-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jul 2017
- Monday, 16:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5519, longitude -0.26635, in the PE2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Orton Longueville, Peterborough, PE2 5QD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017350200056
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- A
- Second road number
- 1260
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 1990.
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 28 August 1990
4 m awayRef 1990351256490
Slight
Iveco crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 1 September 2003
6 m awayRef 2003350500703
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 17 November 2021
7 m awayRef 2021351112745
Serious
Hyundai i10 crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 3 September 2025
16 m awayRef 2025351637016
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 10 December 2012
16 m awayRef 2012350573812
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough, 16 January 1998
16 m awayRef 1998350027498
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
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 2017350200056 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.