C road crash in East Cambridgeshire CB6 on 23 September 2000 at 01:45 involving a taxi
A taxi crashed on a C road in East Cambridgeshire at 01:45 on Saturday 23 September 2000. A 16-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2000
- Saturday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37612, longitude 0.20791, 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
- 2000350434800
- Council area
- East Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 1998.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on a C road in East Cambridgeshire, 26 November 1998
10 m awayRef 1998350594298
Fatal
Suzuki crash on a C road in East Cambridgeshire, 10 September 1999
14 m awayRef 1999350395099
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Cambridgeshire, 28 August 1983
61 m awayRef 1983352169283
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in East Cambridgeshire, 3 February 2018
133 m awayRef 2018350272147
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in East Cambridgeshire, 28 July 2025
147 m awayRef 2025351657145
Serious
MG Metro crash on a C road in East Cambridgeshire, 15 July 1994
225 m awayRef 1994350328394
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2000350434800 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.