Serious unclassified road crash in Peterborough PE3 on 30 December 2017 at 19:50
A vehicle crashed on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 19:50 on Saturday 30 December 2017. The 16-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59577, longitude -0.27858, in the PE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bretton, Peterborough, PE3 8NZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017350270214
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 186 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 8 December 2016
186 m awayRef 2016350140072
Slight
Van crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 2 October 2016
193 m awayRef 2016350120063
Serious
Lexus IS 220 crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 20 October 2025
196 m awayRef 2025351693475
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 25 June 1997
198 m awayRef 1997350310297
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 23 December 1997
203 m awayRef 1997350684697
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A47 in Peterborough, 7 July 2021
205 m awayRef 2021351064275
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 16, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
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 2017350270214 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.