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Serious A142 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 20 May 1997 at 17:35 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry

An Iveco-Ford lorry and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire at 17:35 on Tuesday 20 May 1997. The 40-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
20 May 1997
Tuesday, 17:35
Vehicles
2
Iveco-Ford and Ford Fiesta
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38341, longitude 0.28039, in the CB7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997350250097
Council area
East Cambridgeshire
Police force
Cambridgeshire
Highway authority
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
142
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 2001.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    41 years
    Engine capacity
    6,200 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    9 years

  • Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years
    Engine capacity
    957 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    13 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)

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 1997350250097 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 1997.