Unclassified road crash in Peterborough PE6 on 6 November 2025 at 06:40 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 06:40 on Thursday 6 November 2025. The 22-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 2025
- Thursday, 06:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62779, longitude -0.29659, in the PE6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025351664310
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 10 January 2011
47 m awayRef 2011350061611
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 16 June 2010
56 m awayRef 2010351390910
Slight
Honda NSC50E crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 14 October 2019
61 m awayRef 2019350888569
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 9 May 2006
63 m awayRef 2006350197806
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 1 February 2010
77 m awayRef 2010350244510
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 3 February 2006
83 m awayRef 2006350052506
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025351664310 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 2025.