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A1421 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 6 September 2000 at 17:17 involving a Volkswagen Golf

A Volkswagen Golf and a Rover 400 Series were involved in a crash on the A1421 in East Cambridgeshire at 17:17 on Wednesday 6 September 2000. The 42-year-old female driver of the Rover 400 Series 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
6 Sep 2000
Wednesday, 17:17
Vehicles
2
Volkswagen Golf and Rover 400 Series
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37265, longitude 0.15235, in the CB6 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2000350406400
Council area
East Cambridgeshire
Police force
Cambridgeshire
Police attended the scene
No
Highway authority
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1421
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 1992.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years
    Engine capacity
    1,780 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    18 years

  • Vehicle 2: Rover 400 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    42 years
    Engine capacity
    1,590 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 400 Series)

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 2000350406400 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.