A15 crash in Peterborough on 3 December 2025 at 19:02 involving a BMW 4 Series
A BMW 4 Series and a Citroen C3 were involved in a crash on the A15 in Peterborough at 19:02 on Wednesday 3 December 2025. The 33-year-old male driver of the BMW 4 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 19:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 4 Series and Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5664, longitude -0.24214, in the PE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Peterborough, PE1 1ES area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Peterborough
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025351677799
- Council area
- Peterborough
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 15
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 605
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 1999.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A605 in Peterborough, 11 May 1999
5 m awayRef 1999350202999
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A605 in Peterborough, 23 March 2002
5 m awayRef 2002350147602
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A605 in Peterborough, 3 May 2013
5 m awayRef 2013350307213
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A605 in Peterborough, 10 July 2000
10 m awayRef 2000350305600
Slight
Car crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 17 February 1993
10 m awayRef 1993350083693
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A15 in Peterborough, 4 March 1995
10 m awayRef 1995350108795
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 4 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 4 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025351677799 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.