A1101 crash in Fenland on 26 March 2002 at 18:45 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A1101 in Fenland at 18:45 on Tuesday 26 March 2002. The 31-year-old male driver, an 8-year-old male passenger and a 6-year-old female passenger were 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
- 26 Mar 2002
- Tuesday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.71673, longitude 0.14437, in the PE13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002350151702
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1101
- 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 serious injury crash on 7 September 1994.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1101 in Fenland, 7 September 1994
10 m awayRef 1994350410994
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A1101 in Fenland, 18 January 2024
34 m awayRef 2024351401966
Slight
Leyland crash on the A1101 in Fenland, 18 July 1990
61 m awayRef 1990351218190
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in Fenland, 9 March 1980
98 m awayRef 1980351063880
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A1101 in Fenland, 11 November 2018
104 m awayRef 2018350344272
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1101 in Fenland, 17 January 2009
110 m awayRef 2009350021409
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 2002350151702 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fenland road accident statistics for 2002.