A14 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 5 July 2001 at 02:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire at 02:40 on Thursday 5 July 2001. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2001
- Thursday, 02:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25546, longitude 0.02696, in the CB23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bar Hill, South Cambridgeshire, CB23 8EU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001350360601
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 14
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 6 December 2015
10 m awayRef 2015350200615
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 6 September 2003
10 m awayRef 2003350459603
Serious
Car crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 13 April 1996
10 m awayRef 1996350189696
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 18 July 2005
14 m awayRef 2005350348005
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 3 March 2000
14 m awayRef 2000350104000
Slight
Peugeot 504 crash on the A604 in South Cambridgeshire, 23 February 1990
20 m awayRef 1990352051790
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2001350360601 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 2001.