A142 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 24 October 2001 at 14:40 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire at 14:40 on Wednesday 24 October 2001. The 32-year-old male driver of the car 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
- 24 Oct 2001
- Wednesday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36556, longitude 0.30403, in the CB7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Soham North, East Cambridgeshire, CB7 5TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001350529601
- 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
- 142
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 January 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 7 January 2001
14 m awayRef 2001350007101
Serious
Car crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 21 October 1989
42 m awayRef 1989352241689
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 13 December 2001
78 m awayRef 2001350649501
Serious
Yamaha TDM crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 14 August 2025
132 m awayRef 2025351630602
Slight
Scania crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 24 February 1998
135 m awayRef 1998350099798
Slight
Car crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 28 November 1989
148 m awayRef 1989352283489
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2001350529601 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 2001.