A142 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 4 May 2000 at 16:00 involving a Renault 19
A Renault 19 and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire at 16:00 on Thursday 4 May 2000. A male passenger in the Renault 19 and the 53-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2000
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault 19 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36371, longitude 0.30673, 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
- 2000350194100
- Council area
- East Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2013.
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Peugeot 206 crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 5 March 2013
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in East Cambridgeshire, 9 September 2025
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Leyland crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 25 February 1992
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 16 February 2006
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Peugeot 407 crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 24 July 2013
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault 19
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 19)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 2000350194100 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 2000.