A14 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 12 October 2000 at 18:05 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta, a Honda Civic and a Rover 600 Series were involved in a crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire at 18:05 on Thursday 12 October 2000. The 38-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta, a 28-year-old female passenger in the Honda Civic and a 49-year-old female passenger in the Honda Civic were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2000
- Thursday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2534, longitude 0.03155, in the CB23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000350470400
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 1990.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A604 in South Cambridgeshire, 14 December 1990
10 m awayRef 1990352332190
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A604 in South Cambridgeshire, 12 January 1994
10 m awayRef 1994350018894
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 16 April 2000
14 m awayRef 2000350166200
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 20 August 2016
21 m awayRef 2016350106439
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A604 in South Cambridgeshire, 29 August 1992
22 m awayRef 1992352184392
Serious
DAF Trucks Fad 85CF crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 18 February 2011
22 m awayRef 2011350334111
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,850 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2000350470400 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 2000.