A142 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 24 February 1998 at 08:35 involving a Scania lorry
A Scania lorry crashed on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire at 08:35 on Tuesday 24 February 1998. The 44-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 1998
- Tuesday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36653, longitude 0.30273, in the CB7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998350099798
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 15 September 1988
36 m awayRef 1988352191888
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 13 May 2001
36 m awayRef 2001350246601
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 23 March 2011
45 m awayRef 2011350450211
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 9 March 2001
100 m awayRef 2001350136101
Slight
Lorry crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 5 July 1984
106 m awayRef 1984352130884
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 1 May 2017
108 m awayRef 2017350182756
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Scania)
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 1998350099798 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 1998.