A15 crash in Peterborough on 22 December 2020 at 18:18 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volvo XC60 were involved in a crash on the A15 in Peterborough at 18:18 on Tuesday 22 December 2020. The 53-year-old male driver of the Volvo XC60 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2020
- Tuesday, 18:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volvo XC60
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6377, longitude -0.30797, in the PE6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Glinton and Castor, Peterborough, PE6 7JU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020351016005
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 15
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2013.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 4 December 2013
6 m awayRef 2013353126913
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 30 July 1991
6 m awayRef 1991351203991
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 24 December 1992
16 m awayRef 1992351375392
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 4 October 2020
18 m awayRef 2020350986736
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 20 October 1996
19 m awayRef 1996350490296
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 10 September 2005
19 m awayRef 2005350444405
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volvo XC60
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo XC60)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020351016005 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 2020.