A142 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 9 November 2001 at 16:45 involving a Peugeot 306
A car and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire at 16:45 on Friday 9 November 2001. The 88-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2001
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38392, longitude 0.28045, in the CB7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001350565201
- Council area
- East Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 29 September 1998
28 m awayRef 1998350474198
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 20 May 1997
60 m awayRef 1997350250097
Slight
Volvo crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 30 October 1992
72 m awayRef 1992352235492
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 11 November 2025
74 m awayRef 2025351684769
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 7 November 2001
81 m awayRef 2001350558101
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 12 March 2002
92 m awayRef 2002350127102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 88 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 88, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2001350565201 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.