A1 crash in Peterborough on 28 December 2017 at 21:45 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van crashed on the A1 in Peterborough at 21:45 on Thursday 28 December 2017. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63837, longitude -0.48951, in the PE9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnack, Peterborough, PE9 3JG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017350257899
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2016.
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A1 in Peterborough, 8 April 2016
At the same spotRef 2016350059554
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A1 in Peterborough, 1 September 2018
At the same spotRef 2018350324876
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in Peterborough, 25 October 1986
21 m awayRef 1986351305186
Serious
Lorry crash on the A43 in Peterborough, 3 November 1989
21 m awayRef 1989351350989
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in Peterborough, 2 July 1984
21 m awayRef 1984351164284
Slight
Leyland DAF FT 95 crash on the A1 in Peterborough, 5 June 1996
21 m awayRef 1996350268596
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
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 2017350257899 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.